Meaning & use
demotic
Relating to the informal, everyday form of a language as spoken by ordinary people, rather than a literary or formal style.
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The novelist wrote in demotic English to capture how his characters actually spoke.
Linguists study demotic forms of Greek that differ sharply from its classical register.
A note on using this word
Demotic contrasts with a formal or literary register; capitalized as Demotic, it also names an ancient Egyptian script.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A simplified cursive script used in ancient Egypt for everyday writing, later succeeded by Coptic.
Scholars compared the demotic on the Rosetta Stone with its Greek translation.
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