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nounthe modern Greek vernacular
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nouna simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script
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"demotic entertainments" "demotic speech" "a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms"adjectiveof or for the common people
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of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use
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- rosetta stone a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics