demotic in A Sentence

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    On this stone, known as the Rosetta Stone, the three scripts present were hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek.

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    Eventually, however, the Demotic tongue of the cities themselves began to be appreciated as a literary medium.

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    Menes also appears in Demotic novels of the Hellenistic period, demonstrating that, even that late, he was regarded as an important figure.

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    A new form of writing, Demotic, became the prevalent writing style, and it is this form of writing-along with formal hieroglyphs-that accompany the Greek text on the Rosetta Stone.

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    Many stories written in Demotic during the Greco-Roman period were set in previous historical eras, when Egypt was an independent nation ruled by great pharaohs such as Ramesses II.

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    From about 700 BC, narrative stories and instructions, such as the popular Instructions of Onchsheshonqy, as well as personal and business documents were written in the Demotic script and phase of Egyptian.

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    The last dated hieroglyph was carved in a temple on the island of Philae in 395 A.D. Coptic was then written and spoken- a combination of twenty-four Greek characters and six Demotic characters- before the spread of Arabic meant that Egypt was cut off from the last connection to its linguistic past.

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