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Demotic (from Ancient Greek: δημοτικός dēmotikós, 'popular') is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta. The term was first used by the Greek historian Herodotus to distinguish it from hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts.
Young noticed the similarities between hieroglyphic and demotic signs and concluded that the hieroglyphic signs had evolved into the demotic ones. If so, Young reasoned, demotic could not be a purely phonetic script but must also include ideographic signs that were derived from hieroglyphs; he wrote to de Sacy with this insight in 1815. [66]
demo1234 Demotic Egyptian Demotiс Egyptian language was the state of the Egyptian language used in the New Kingdom of Egypt and Third Intermediate Period of Egypt. The formation and development of the demotic language as a separate language from the New Egyptian was strongly influenced by Aramaic and Ancient Greek .
The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language, the most recent development of Egyptian. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the uncial Greek alphabet, augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic. It was the first alphabetic script used for the Egyptian language.
Papyrus Amherst 63 (CoS 1.99 [1]) is an ancient Egyptian papyrus from the third century BC containing Aramaic texts in demotic Egyptian script. [2] The 35 texts date to the eighth and seventh centuries BC. [3] One of these, a version of Psalm 20, provides an "unprecedented" extrabiblical parallel to a text from the Hebrew Bible. [4]
Demotic may refer to: Demotic Greek , the modern vernacular form of the Greek language Demotic (Egyptian) , an ancient Egyptian script and version of the language
The demotic inscriptions at Philae are also considerably later than other known demotic writings. The latest known example of demotic from outside Philae is a text probably from Sohag, dated to 290. [8] The demotic inscription accompanying Nesmeterakhem's hieroglyphs is the last known demotic inscription written by a priest to mention Osiris.
The first script is Egyptian hieroglyphs, the second is Demotic, and the third is Greek capitals. Only parts of the last fourteen lines of hieroglyphs remain; these correspond to the last twenty-eight lines of Greek text which is also damaged. The Demotic section is thirty-two lines of which the starts of fourteen are damaged (reading right to ...