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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 16 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DEMOTIC (Gr. Srlµorucos, of or belonging to the people)

DEMOTIC (Gr. Srlµorucos, of or belonging to the
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PEOPLE
people) , a

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TERM

term, meaning popular, specially applied to that cursive script of the

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EGYPTIAN

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LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language used for business and

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LITERARY

literary purposes,—for the

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PEOPLE

people . It is opposed to "

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HIERATIC

hieratic " (Gr . Ieparucos, of or belonging to the priests), the script, an abridged

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FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the hieroglyphic, used in transcribing the religious texts . (See

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EGYPT

EGYPT: II., Ancient, D .

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