Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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THE ALPHABET
The direction of hieratic was originally vertical, and later horizontal, from right to left (Fig. 30-32).
DEMOTIC WRITING
This was a highly cursive derivative of hieratic. The term "demotic," from the Greek demotikà grámmata (démos, "people"), that is "popular
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Fig. 32
1-2, Egyptian word-signs in hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic. 3. Demotic document vulgar characters," is taken from Herodotus (ii, 36), while Clement of Alexandria (Strom. v, 4), calls this script grammata epistolographiká, "epistolary characters." Enchorial (Greek enchórios, "of the country") is another term used for this system of writing.
