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1. Demotic Language

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   Demotic (language)/) refers to the latter stages of the development of the Ancient Egyptian language, succeeding the phase known as Middle Egyptian. Emerging around the 7th century BCE, Demotic served initially as a cursive script for administrative and daily use, running parallel to Hieratic (script)/) for religious texts and Hieroglyphic (script)/) for monumental inscriptions. Its name, derived from the [Greek](/entr…