Demotic vs Demoticist - What's the difference?
demotic | demoticist |
Of or for the common people.
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Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
(linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.
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As nouns the difference between demotic and demoticist
is that demotic is (linguistics) language as spoken or written by the common people while demoticist is a student of, or expert at the demotic script.As an adjective demotic
is of or for the common people.demotic
English
(wikipedia demotic)Adjective
(-)- demotic script is a simplified, cursive form of hieroglyphs used in ancient Egypt.
- demotic Greek
Synonyms
* (of the vulgar form of hieratic writing) enchorialNoun
(en noun)accents map
- Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like .