demotic
adjective
- of the people; popular; specif., vernacular (sense )
- in or of idiomatic, colloquial, everyday language: a novelist with a good ear for demotic dialogue
- designating or of a simplified system of ancient Egyptian writing
noun
- Romaic
- everyday language; the way real people speak
See demotic in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(dĭ-mŏtˈĭk)
adjective- Of or relating to the common people; popular: demotic speech; demotic entertainments.
- Of, relating to, or written in the simplified form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
- Demotic Of or relating to a form of modern Greek based on colloquial use.
noun Demotic Greek.
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