Demotic in a sentence

Åkerblad was correct in stressing the importance of the demotic text in trying to read the inscriptions, but he wrongly believed that demotic was entirely alphabetic.

The “Language Question,” as the debate over the use of the Demotic and Katharevousa versions of the Greek language came to be known, was finally and officially resolved in 1976.

His wit, grit and gift for mixing the demotic with the metaphorical have long made him the people’s poet, whose “no brow” (his description) work spoke to the Britpop-New Labour moment.

Upon his return to Zakynthos, Solomos tried his hand at writing poems in Greek for the first time and controversially at the time attempted these poems in Demotic Greek rather than the “purist” Katharevousa language.

A number of letters, however, were derived from Demotic, and many of these (though not all) are used in "true" Coptic writing.

As the stone presented a hieroglyphic and a demotic version of the same text in parallel with a Greek translation, plenty of material for falsifiable studies in translation was suddenly available.

During this period, spoken Greek became more prevalent in the written tradition, as demotic Greek came to be used more and more over the Attic idiom and the katharevousa reforms.

Graphemic borrowing from Chinese: The case of chữ nôm, Vietnam's demotic script.

He began by using a demotic alphabet of 29 letters built up by Johan David Åkerblad in 1802 (14 turned out to be incorrect).

He made the first major advances in this area; he also correctly identified Demotic as being composed by both ideographic and phonetic signs.sfn Subsequently, Young felt that Champollion was unwilling to share the credit for the decipherment.

However, most words of Egyptian origin that entered into Greek and subsequently into other European languages came directly from Ancient Egyptian, often Demotic ).

Many of them served as glosses to original hieratic and demotic equivalents.

Quirke and Andrews (1989) p. 10 Richard Parkinson points out that the hieroglyphic version strays from archaic formalism and occasionally lapses into language closer to that of the demotic register that the priests more commonly used in everyday life.

The basic unit of decision making in an inclusive democracy is the demotic assembly, i.e. the assembly of demos, the citizen body in a given geographical area which may encompass a town and the surrounding villages, or even neighbourhoods of large cities.

The Greek block includes seven Coptic letters (U+03E2 U+03EF highlighted below) derived from Demotic, and these need to be included in any complete implementation of Coptic.

When by a stroke of luck a Greek translation of a well-known demotic papyrus came into his possession later that year, he did not share that important finding with Champollion.

With the spread of Christianity in Egypt, by the late 3rd century, knowledge of hieroglyphic writing was lost, as well as Demotic slightly later, making way for a writing system more closely associated with the Christian church.