Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Demotic

c. 700 BCE – 450 CE Extinct

Demotic (c. 700 BCE – 450 CE) is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language. It has 1 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Old Egyptian → Middle Egyptian → Late Egyptian → Demotic.

See Demotic on the interactive map

Egyptian of the Late, Ptolemaic and Roman periods, written in the Demotic script (e.g. the middle text of the Rosetta Stone). Last dated inscription 452 CE at Philae.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Old Egyptianc. 2,600 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  3. Middle Egyptianc. 2,000 BCE – 1,350 BCE
  4. Late Egyptianc. 1,350 BCE – 700 BCE
  5. Demoticc. 700 BCE – 450 CE

Descendants 1

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