| 41. | These include texts both in hieratic and demotic; some parts are also written in hieroglyphs.
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| 42. | Around the first century AD, the Coptic alphabet started to be used alongside the Demotic script.
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| 43. | Coptic and Demotic are grammatically closely related to Late Egyptian, which was written with Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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| 44. | However this demotic was far from the " vulgar grocers'language " of two centuries before.
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| 45. | Later period finds include 400 Demotic and Greek ostraca from a 2nd 1st century BC mercenary garrison.
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| 46. | Many Demotic Greek names were also replaced by a Katharevousa Greek form, usually different only morphologically.
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| 47. | Spiegelberg made important contributions towards the deciphering of Demotic script and in the field of Demotic lexicography.
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| 48. | Spiegelberg made important contributions towards the deciphering of Demotic script and in the field of Demotic lexicography.
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| 49. | Yet it is difficult to reconcile this demotic vision with the authoritative role courted by this very dictionary.
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| 50. | Instead, the adapted demotic grapheme, which normally stands for, is used to express either sound.
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