The study of demotic script and language, or demotic script itself, especially in relation to ancient Egyptian writing.
From demotic (of the people) + -ics (field of study). Demotic as a script refers to the everyday writing system of ancient Egypt that was used by ordinary people.
Demotics is a specialized field where scholars study how ordinary ancient Egyptians actually wrote and communicated—it's less fancy than hieroglyphics but gives us the real story of what people cared about.
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