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[[Image:Demotic_Ostrakon.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ostraca with Demotic script dating from the Ptolemaic period]]

[[Image:Demotic_Ostrakon.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ostraca with Demotic script dating from the Ptolemaic period]]

=== Demotic ===

=== Demotic ===

The Demotic script is a natural evolution of hieratic and is an extremely cursive form of hieroglyphs featuring many ligatures, though it still retains the determinative system. Thus is it is not "purely" alphabetic as the Latin or [[Greek]] alphabets are. It first appeared in the [[Late Period]], and was in use alongside both hieroglyphs and hieratic. The Demotic alphabet was one of the three scripts (the other two being hieroglyphs and Greek) on the Rosetta Stone. In Egyptology demotic is often transliterated directly rather than  

The Demotic script is a natural evolution of hieratic and is an extremely cursive form of hieroglyphs featuring many ligatures, though it still retains the determinative system. Thus is it is not "purely" alphabetic as the [[Latin alphabet|Latin]] or [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] alphabets are. It first appeared in the [[Late Period]], and was in use alongside both hieroglyphs and hieratic. The Demotic alphabet was one of the three scripts (the other two being hieroglyphs and Greek) on the Rosetta Stone. In Egyptology demotic is often transliterated directly rather than

=== Coptic ===

=== Coptic ===