demotic

A simplification of the hieratic script. Demotic defined a state of the Egyptian language at a particular time, as much as a system of writing that appeared in the seventh century B.C.E. The simplification and signs in demotic writing is so extensive that the connection between this script and the hieroglyphic system is considered to have been broken. Along with Greek and the hieroglyphic system, this was one of the three languages/writing systems represented on the Rosetta Stone.