Dhimotiki

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Greek δημοτική (γλώσσα) (dimotikí (glóssa), [language] of the people).

Proper noun

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Dhimotiki

  1. Demotic Greek.
    • 2005, Robert McColl Millar, Language, Nation and Power, Palgrave Macmillan, page 88:
      To many, Dhimotiki was seen as a more pliable, more creative, variety than Katharevousa.
    • 2019, Language and Society, Andrew Simpson, Oxford University Press, p. 116:
      In 1903, when a translation of the Bible appeared in Dhimotikí, this actually resulted in public riots, led by indignant supporters of Katharévousa, and the deaths of eight people in the rioting in Athens.