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	Modern Greek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Demotic Greek (Δημοτική): During the middle ages the vernacular language of the Byzantines, notably in mainland Greece, Asia Minor and Constantinople.
		Demotic Greek is now the official language of the Hellenic Republic (Greece), and is therefore also referred as the "Koine Modern Greek" (common modern Greek) or less strictly as "Modern Greek".
		Koine Modern Greek evolves from the Southern Demotic idioms, mainly the ones of Peloponnese.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demotic_Greek (1207 words)

	Demotic (Egyptian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Early Demotic (often referred to by the German term Frühdemotisch) developed in Lower Egypt during the later part of the 25th Dynasty, particularly on stelae from the Serapeum at Saqqara.
		By the end of the third century BC, Greek was more important as it was the administrative language of the country; Demotic contracts lost most of their legal force unless there was a note in Greek of being registered with the authorities.
		The last dated example of the Demotic script is dated to 11 December 452 AD, and consists of a graffiti on the walls of the temple of Isis on Philae.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demotic_Egyptian (528 words)

	Greek literature, modern. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Greeks had been completely cut off from the classical tradition by centuries of Turkish occupation and the successful revolution had created such pride in the new nation that there were many champions of a demotic style.
		The demotic had the staunch support of such outstanding poets as Kostes Palamas; the classicist Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933); the popular George Drossinis (1859–1951); and the collector of folk poetry, Apostolos Melachrinos.
		The effort of modern Greek writers to achieve a synthesis of the rich traditions of the Greek heritage is well represented in the work of Nikos Kazantzakis.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gr/Greeklit-m.html (729 words)

	Greek language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Demotic Greek is the official language of the modern Greek state, and the most widely spoken by Greeks today.
		Greek words have been widely borrowed into the European languages: astronomy, democracy, philosophy, thespian, etc. Moreover, Greek words and word elements continue to be productive as a basis for coinages: anthropology, photography, isomer, etc. and form, with Latin words, the foundation of international scientific and technical vocabulary.
		Greek is the official language of the Hellenic Republic (Greece) where it is spoken by about 98.5% of the population.
	greek-language.ask.dyndns.dk (1568 words)

	Greece LANGUAGE - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, ...
		Modern Greek is spoken on the mainland, on most of the surrounding islands, in the Greek community of Istanbul, in most of Cyprus, and in some villages of Calabria in southern Italy.
		Greek is a direct descendant of an Indo-European language spoken by civilizations in the northeastern Mediterranean for centuries before Christ.
		The greatest variation from standard Greek is shown in Tsakonian, which is spoken in the mountains of the Peloponnesus, and in the dialects closely matching those spoken by Greeks in southern Italy and Turkey.
	www.photius.com /countries/greece/society/greece_society_language.html (981 words)

	Greek language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Greek language (Greek Ελληνικά, IPA // – "Hellenic") is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 12 million speakers worldwide, most of whom live in Greece.
		Modern Greek is a living language and one of the richest surviving languages today, with more than 600,000 words.
		Greek word forms continue to have a great influence in the world's scientific and technical vocabulary, and make up a large part of the technical vocabulary of many languages including Latin, Italian, German, French, and English e.g.
	greek-language.kiwiki.homeip.net (1601 words)

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		This linguistic alienation of the Greek audience from the Ancient Greek language (if not heritage) was a hard reality, which nevertheless the Greek intellectuals of the 18th and 19th century were unwilling to accept, seeing it rather as a temporary, yet curable, weakness resulting from the long period of illiteracy during the Turkish occupation.
		First, he overruled the arguments of the purists that demotic Greek was not a language rich enough to be used as a means of expression for literary masterpieces and intellectual expression.
		At the same time, the pure demotic of the translation was further highlighted by the extensive use of compound adjectives and verbs, a characteristic that occurs in much greater frequency in demotic Greek, and constitutes a standard feature of folk songs and dialectic language.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /mcl/faculty/armstrong/papa.draft.html (2738 words)

	Ancient Egyptian scripts
		The Demotic or popular script, a name given to it by Herodotus, developed from a northern variant of the Hieratic script in around 660 BC.
		During the 26th Dynasty it became the preferred script at court, however during the 4th century it was gradually replaced by the Greek-derived Coptic alphabet.
		During the Ptolemaic Period it was regularly carved in stone - the most famous example of this is the Rosetta Stone, which is inscribed with texts in the Hieroglyphic script, Greek and Demotic and was one of the keys to the decipherment of Ancient Egyptian scripts.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/egyptian_demotic.htm (180 words)

	Alexandra O'Brien, PHD proposal, Egyptian women in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, papyrology, Egypt, Demotic, Greek, Roman, ...
		An example of such a "mixed marriage" would be Dryton, the Greek cavalry officer, born in Ptolemais, a Greek city in Upper Egypt, who lived in the largely Egyptian town of Pathyris (modern Gebelein, south of Luxor(29)).
		However, that Apollonia was descended from Greeks is denied by Bagnall who considers her description of herself as Greek as a social affectation (Bagnall, 1988: 23-24).
		Pestman also notes numerous occasions when women acted in Greek law without a guardian but notes that "no scholar has been able to determine whether the use of the kyrios changed over time, or whether such assistance was required only in certain kinds of cases" (Pomeroy, 1990: 200 note 84 and Pestman, 1969b: 17-19).
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/DEPT/RA/OBRIEN_DISSPROP_TEXT.HTML (4712 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.09.25
		Greek spells also more frequently present an international list of celebrities to whom their authorship is pseudepigraphically ascribed, whereas ordinarily Demotic language spells are only linked to great Egyptians of the past.
		Dieleman's commitment to the idea that Demotic was intelligible only to the priests leads to the conclusion that, while the Greek texts may have had an external marketplace, these Demotic ones were intended for "priestly circles" (294), but what the priests were going to do with the texts is not specified.
		Dieleman argues that to regard the Demotic and bilingual texts under the rubric of "Greek Magical Papyri" is part of an improperly Hellenocentric paradigm for their interpretation that has caused scholars to overlook or minimize the importance of their Egyptian content and the extent to which these works are continuous with Egyptian priestly-scribal practices.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-09-25.html (2542 words)

	Articles - Rosetta Stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Greek part of the Rosetta Stone begins: ´´Basileuontos tou neou kai paralabontos tÄ“n basileian para tou patros...´´ (The new king, having received the kingship from his father...) It is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing various taxes he
		repealed (one measured in ardebs (Greek ´´artabai´´) per ´´aroura´´), and instructing that statues be erected in temples and that the decree be published in the writing of the words of gods (hieroglyphs), the writing of the people (demotic), and the Wynen (Greek; the word is cognate with Ionian) language.
		Thus the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the Egyptian Demotic (citizen text, as in democratic), was written against the Greek language, as the new occupiers of pharaonic rule, following Alexander the Great´s conquest.
	www.worldhammock.com /articles/Rosetta_Stone (1017 words)

	Ethnic Identity, On–line Exhibit
		To write in Greek or Demotic was not only a matter of learning a script, orthography, vocabulary and grammar; the mechanics of writing in either language differed considerably.
		Demotic was written from right to left with a brush made out of a rush; the carbon-based ink was shaped into a cake and placed on a palette.
		By contrast, Greek was written left to right with a reed pen; the ink used was metal-based and dissolved in water to form liquid.
	tebtunis.berkeley.edu /lecture/clar_ex3.html (1172 words)

	Modified Isaac's Transliteration
		Greek alphabet is believed to be a derivation and enhancment of Heiroglyphs that were brought to Ancient Greece by Phoenicians.
		Coptic: sacrificed the Demotic script for Greek due to the simplicity of the later, facilitate education, rediscovery of Egyptian identity in the era of Hellinization and ensure survival in an era of Cosmostic changes
		Greeks in Egypt had struggled to convince Egyptian with their inferiority at everything the same was done by Egyptians as a defensive mechanism.
	www.coptic.org /language/KTS.html (3872 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.08.05
		Later in the work, in the course of a discussion about the use of Aristophanes as an emblem of Greek folk expressionism to be protected from foreign influences and appropriations, as envisaged by Karolos Koun, Van Steen muses on her own stance as enquirer.
		While it is not part of her brief to discuss Aristophanes in the context of ancient Athenian culture and politics, I was left thinking that Van Steen's discussion of translations or adaptations of Aristophanes in Demotic Greek might have been enriched by a discussion of the slipperiness of popularism in Aristophanes' plays.
		I found myself wondering whether Euangelatos attributed the destabilization of meaning through the inversion of gender to the Aristophanic text, or whether it was his additional twist of casting a male actor in a female role as a cross-dressing gender-impostor that led to a break down in signification.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2001/2001-08-05.html (2420 words)

	UPNE \| Demotic Greek II
		Demotic Greek II University Press of New England
		Integrated sequel to DEMOTIC GREEK I for second-year students uses scenarios and readings based on authentic Greek texts drawn from folktales, ballads, and writers such as Herodotus, Kazantzakis, Koraes, Myrivilis, and Seferis.
		The authors are intelligent and experienced professionals, their Demotic Greek II deserves every praise.”—Journal ofModern Greek Studies
	www.upne.com /0-87451-208-5.html (129 words)

	article01
		Hieratic (Greek priestly) writing, a more cursive form of hieroglyphs, dates from the 5th dynasty, about 2450 B.C. Hieratic was generally found inscribed on papyrus, and was the common writing form until it was replaced, beginning in about 800 B.C., by the even more cursive and phonetic demotic (Greek popular).
		The demotic Egyptian was used as a phonetic form of writing, i.e., a given character representing the smallest unit of speech that serves to distinguish one utterance from another.
		Were demotic characters expressing phonemes to have been used by the Nephite prophets and historians, there would have been no significant compression of space over writing in Hebrew.
	www.davidgorton.com /Articles/article01.htm (3969 words)

	Rosetta Stone
		The Rosetta Stone is a dark granite stone (often incorrectly identified as basalt) with writing on it in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, Hieroglyphic, Demotic Egyptian and Greek.
		Because Greek was well known, the stone was the key to deciphering the hieroglyphs.
		The Rosetta Stone is stone three in a series of 3, a stone each for Ptolemy III, Ptolemy IV, and the Rosetta Stone, for Ptolemy V. Leap Year is implemented in Stone 1, the Stone of Canopus, for Ptolemy III.
	www.archira.com /rosetta.html (912 words)

	Greek Literature, Modern - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Greek literature, modern, literature written in Greek in the modern era, primarily beginning during the period of rebellion against the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
		The Greek-French Jean Psichari (1854-1929) aroused a storm with his satire of the purists, The Voyage (1888), and the publication in 1901 of a demotic translation of the New Testament caused a riot in Athens among university students.
		Demotic dramatists include the naturalists Ioannis Kambisis (1872-1902) and the psychological dramatist Gregorios Xenopoulos (1867-1951), also an outstanding novelist.
	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=Greeklit-m (826 words)

	Athena Review 2,2: Graeco-Roman Papyrus Documents from Egypt
		After Octavius defeated Antony and Cleopatra at Actium in 31 BC to begin Roman rule, Greek remained as the official written language of the eastern Roman empire, gradually replacing the native demotic in common use, although both scripts were sometimes used together in contracts and other documents.
		In 1877, ushering in the modern era of Greek papyri, layers of documents were found at Arsinoë (Krokodilopolis) in the Fayum, dating mainly from the Byzantine period of AD 330-650.
		The oldest dated Greek papyrus in Egypt is a marriage contract of 311 BC from Elephantine (P.Eleph.1), soon after the conquest by Alexander (Hunt and Edgar 1934).
	www.athenapub.com /egypap1.htm (3072 words)

	2005-2006 Course Register
		This course is designed for students with an elementary knowledge of Demotic Modern Greek, and aims mainly at developing oral expression, reading and writing skills.
		Morphology and syntax of Greek. Intensive exercise in grammar, Greek composition, translation from Greek to English (both prepared and sight).
		Close reading and discussion of a Greek author or a particular genre of Greek literature. Topics will vary each semester and the course may be repeated for credit.
	www.upenn.edu /registrar/register/grek.html (500 words)

	Demotic Texts on the WWW, a guide to internet resources on papyrus, papyri, Egypt, Demotic, Greek, Roman, Greco-Roman, ...
		Demotic Texts on the WWW, a guide to internet resources on papyrus, papyri, Egypt, Demotic, Greek, Roman, Greco-Roman, Graeco-Roman, Hellenistic, Ptolemaic and post-Pharaonic Egypt, and Egyptian language material, scans of papyri
		Demotic Texts Published on the World Wide Web is intended to be a constantly up-dated collection of the Demotic language material available on the World Wide Web and is the beginning of a catalogue of all Egyptian language materials published on-line.
		Demotic Texts Published on the World Wide Web was made public for the first time on the afternoon of 9th April, 1997.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/DEMOTIC_WWW.HTML (830 words)

	BRILL
		Tax Receipts and Legal Documents on Demotic, Greek, and Greek-Demotic Ostraka, Chiefly of the Early Ptolemaic Period, from Various Collections (P. Bat.
		S.P. Vleeming, reader in demotic Papyrology in the University of Leiden, specialises in the study of the juridical documents of Late Period Egypt.
		As a nouveauté the Greek and demotic texts are published on exactly the same footing, and a constant effort is made to merge the separate worlds of Greek and demotic papyrology.
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=1804 (496 words)

	Archaeologics.com -- Can You Dig It?
		The Rosetta Stone solved a particularly difficult linguistic problem.The Rosetta Stone is a dark granite stone (often incorrectly identified as basalt) with writing on it in two languages (Egyptian and Greek), using three scripts (Hieroglyphic, Demotic and Greek), which provided modern researchers with translations of ancient text in Egyptian demotic script, Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
		Because Greek was well known, the stone was the key to deciphering the hieroglyphs in 1822 by Jean-Francois Champollion, and in 1823 by Thomas Young.
		Detail from the actual Rosetta StoneThe same Ptolemaic decree of 196 BC is written on the stone in the three scripts.
	www.archaeologics.com /famousRosetta.html (975 words)

	demotic. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		Of or relating to the common people; popular: demotic speech; demotic entertainments.
		Of, relating to, or written in the simplified form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
		Demotic Of or relating to a form of modern Greek based on colloquial use.
	www.bartleby.com /61/71/D0127100.html (104 words)

	Greek Language
		It is spoken by about 12 million people.
		the first Greek script, produced by the Mycenaeans and found on tablets at
		the author of a grammar of Greek published in 1959
	www.xqr64.dial.pipex.com /language.htm (136 words)

	321revover1
		Speaks for use of Demotic in Roman Period
		Although Greek was main language of business and administration, Demotic still used in Hellenistic and Roman Periods
		Demotic still retained to some extent for documentary purposes in southern Egypt
	condor.depaul.edu /~sbucking/extra/321revover14.htm (160 words)

	Ancient Greece language, language in Greece, Greek alphabets, pimsleur Greek, Greece words, online greek, Greece ...
		Ancient Greece language, language in Greece, Greek alphabets, pimsleur Greek, Greece words, online greek, Greece dictionary, Greek dictionary
		The language's evolution in the Byzantine period is imprecisely known because its use was restricted to speech and informal documents that generally were not preserved.
		In 1888 Ioannis Psicharis, a scholar of the speech of the common people and the leader of the demotic movement, wrote the first serious boo
	greece.russiansabroad.com /country_page.aspx?page=137 (644 words)

	modern Greek literature: The Language Debate
		The Greek-French Jean Psichari (1854–1929) aroused a storm with his satire of the purists,
		(1888), and the publication in 1901 of a demotic translation of the New Testament caused a riot in Athens among university students.
		The demotic had the staunch support of such outstanding poets as Kostes
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/A0858486.html (356 words)

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