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1. Demotic Language

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   | Late Demotic | c. 30 BCE – 452 CE | Religious texts (especially after Roman conquest), funerary inscriptions | Significant phonetic drift; frequent incorporation of Greek loanwords, leading to orthographic inflation |
   The transition from Middle Demotic to Late Demotic is often marked by the "Great Confusion" of the Ptolemaic era, where scribes began consciously doubling graphemes to represent sounds lost in the phonological collapse, leading to an increas…