- of or relating to the ordinary, everyday, current form of a language; vernacular: a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms.
- of or relating to the common people; popular.
- of, relating to, or noting the simplified form of hieratic writing used in ancient Egypt between 700 b.c. and a.d. 500.
- demotic script.
- the Modern Greek vernacular (distinguished from Katharevusa).
- of or relating to the common people; popular
- of or relating to a simplified form of hieroglyphics used in ancient Egypt by the ordinary literate class outside the priesthood
- the demotic script of ancient Egypt
- the spoken form of Modern Greek, now increasingly used in literature
- denoting or relating to this
