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Dhimotiki
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English
Alternative forms
en dhimotiki Dimotiki
Etymology
Borrowed from en el δημοτική (γλώσσα) [language] of the people.
Proper noun
Demotic Greek.
en 2005 Robert McColl Millar Language, Nation and Power Palgrave Macmillan 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.