Demotic Egyptian language

This article is about the language. For the writing system, see Demotic script.

Demotiс Egyptian
Demotic
𐦲𐧒‎
Pronunciation	[xɛm]
Date	c. 700 BC
Region	North Africa
Ethnicity	Ancient Egyptians
Extinct	c. 115 AD
Language family	Afroasiatic Egyptian Demotiс Egyptian
Early forms	Archaic Egyptian Old Egyptian Mid Egyptian Late Egyptian
Writing system	Demotic script
Official status
Official language in	Roman Egypt
Language codes
ISO 639-2	egy
ISO 639-3	egy – inclusive code Individual code: cop – Greek Demotic
Glottolog	demo1234  Demotic Egyptian

Demotiс Egyptian language was the state of the Egyptian language used since 650 BC up to approx. 450 year AC. in the New Kingdom of Egypt and Third Intermediate Period of Egypt. The formation and development of the demotika language as a separate language from the New Egyptian was strongly influenced by Aramaic and Ancient Greek.

Monuments

Among the monuments of a new daily language literature, comparing to the previous stages of the Egyptian language comes fairy genre, a fable. These fables were intimately entwined with the mythology and narrated the adventures of the mythological character of the Egyptian religion. Leiden papyrus, dating I-II centuries BC, contains such fables.

Bibliography

• Janet H. Johnson: Thus Wrote ’Onchsheshonqy – An Introductory Grammar of Demotic (Third Edition). Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago 2000, ISBN 0-918986-76-1.
• Janet H. Johnson: The Demotic Verbal System, Janet H. Johnson. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago 1976, ISBN 0-918986-02-8.
• R. S. Simpson: Demotic Grammar in the Ptolemaic Sacerdotal Decrees. Griffith Institute Monographs, Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1996, ISBN 0-900416-65-3.