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Demotic Language
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| Early Demotic | c. 650 BCE – 500 BCE | Legal documents, private letters | Highly ligatured, retaining many distinctive Hieratic/) signs |
| Middle Demotic | c. 500 BCE – 30 BCE | Administrative, literary (e.g., The Instruction of Amenemope) | Transitional phase; characterized by standardized syllabic indicators |
| 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 or… -
Greek Loanwords
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Via Latin (The Primary Conduit)
The most significant influx into Romance languages and Germanic languages occurred indirectly through Latin. Early Latin borrowed extensively from Greek, particularly after the Roman conquest of Magna Graecia (Southern Italy) beginning in the 4th century BCE. This initial wave was primarily semantic, focusing on agriculture, gove… -
Hellenic World
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The Hellenic World refers to the geographical, cultural, and political sphere dominated by ancient Greek civilization (c. 1600 BCE) until the Roman conquest in the mid-second century BCE. This sphere is characterized by a shared language (various Greek dialects, common religious practices centered on the Olympian pantheon, and a distinct [philosophical](/entries/phi…
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Ibero Romance Languages
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The Ibero-Romance languages constitute a major branch of the Romance language family, descended from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula following the Roman conquest beginning in the 3rd century BCE. This group is characterized by a shared substrate influence, primarily from ancient Iberian and Basque, though the primary linguistic driver remains the regionalization…