demotic

  1. Adjective.  Of or for the common people.
  2. Adjective.  Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
  3. Adjective.  Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
  4. Noun.  (linguistics) Language as spoken by the common people.

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