Re: Demotic/Koine/Prakit

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Mike Adams wrote:

> Demotic=Egyptian late, actually a writing form.
Actually, "Demotic" can also refer to Greek tongues, the "Dhimotiki", or
"vulgar Greek".  It was denigrated and downplayed by the 20th-century
Greek state, but it is the natural modern form of Greek, as opposed to
"Kathieravesa", which is at least partially a conlang.

It's quite enlightening to see the same passages in Attic, Koine,
Kathieravesa, and Dhimotiki, side by side.


> Koine=Greek, can be a term for a lingua franca!?
Actually, Koine refers to a specific form of Greek--a Greek-based lingua
franca common to the eastern Mediterranean roughly 2,000 years ago.