Démotique
The term demotic indicates all at the same time a writing and the state of the Egyptian language which it notes.
The demotic writing was formed at the time saïte; the oldest currently known certificate goes back to Psammétique {{Ier}} (-664/-610). The démotique one is a simplification of the hieratic , itself simplification of the Hiéroglyphes. The installation of this writing probably fits in a vast policy of administrative reforms undertaken by the Pharaons of. The multiplication of the documents produced by the Scribes required a writing even more cursive and more rapid. Started from Know, the démotique one extended to all the Egypt. The hieratic one lost its administrative role then and was confined with the religious documents, from where its name.
It is one of the three writings used on the Pierre de Rosette (with the Greek and the hieroglyphic writing), which made it possible Champollion to decipher the hiéroglyphes.
The Copt alphabet, created starting from the Greek Uncial, used several signs demotic to increase its stock of letters.
The word “demotic” also indicates new the Greek, the popular Greek, by opposition with the Katharévousa, a rebuilding with old Greek .
Others
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code ISO 15924: Egyd
Related articles
- hieratic Writing;
- Copte ;
- Copt alphabet;
- Papyrology (see in particular demotic papyrology).
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