Demotic (from Ancient Greek: δημοτικός dēmotikós, 'popular') is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta. Script · Early Demotic · Middle Demotic · Late Demotic

The first expert to unlock the mysteries of Demotic was the German, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, who published Egyptology's first systematic grammar of Demotic in ...

By the 5th century bce, demotic script—which the Egyptians called sekh shat, meaning “writing for documents”—had come into use everywhere in Egypt for business ...

During the seventh-fifth centuries, it seems that only the administration was using demotic. The first literary demotic texts are from the fourth century BC, ...

It emerged around 650 BCE and was faster and more practical for everyday use. When was Demotic Script used in ancient Egypt? Demotic Script was used in ancient ...

Demotic, the cursive script derived from ancient Egyptian hieratic, was one of the scripts used to write the Egyptian language in the Late Period and Graeco- ...

The later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts were derived from hieroglyphic writing, as was the Proto-Sinaitic script that later evolved into the Phoenician ... List of Egyptian hieroglyphs · Cursive hieroglyphs · Graffito of Esmet-Akhom

The development of demotic writing and its alphabet was a gradual process that began in the mid-7th century BC. However, it did not replace hieratic, which ...

The demotic script was a writing system used in ancient Egypt from the early 7th century BC to the 5th century CE. It is often considered the most important ...