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This guess proved correct; and owing to the decipherment of one of the inscriptions, a test was obtained, and the same plan was followed as that of Champollion with regard to the Rosetta stone, on which was the tri-lingual inscription in Greek, Demotic or Enchorial, and hieroglyphic characters.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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There's no such thing as reformed Egyptian (Demotic, maybe?), though I will posit the wild guess that Smith was aiming here for a language the Israelites might have borrowed from Egypt and altered after the Exodus.
Robert Silverberg, "Fantastic Archaeology," and Mormonism 2007
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Although in ancient Egypt women had the same legal rights as men, allowing them to institute divorce, serve as witnesses to contracts and in trials, and to hold their own property and dispose of it as they wished, as noted in Demotic papyri, those legal rights for women were tempered by social conventions.
The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt 2009
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Since the death of Dr. Birch, who can fairly deal with a Demotic papyrus?
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I dunno, Demotic is a pretty damn difficult writing system.
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The liturgy is just a ritual that is sung, even in the United States there is opposition from the faithful in performing the liturgy in English or Demotic Greek.
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The Greek Orthodox Church only performs the Bible's liturgy in Koine, sermons are in Demotic Greek.
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The 2,200-year-old stele describes, in ancient Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphic, planned changes to the Egyptian calendar (implemented about 200 years later under Julius Caesar) and lauds then-ruler Ptolemy III for importing grain from other countries to stave off famine among his subjects.
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Demotic Greek was despised by classicists during the XIX-c.
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Having the same text in Greek II, which the discoverers could read, meant that the hieroglyphic pictures and cursive Demotic forms could be deduced.
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