01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Demotic Script
Egyptian Demotic, developed from Hieratic script around 650 BC.
Egyptian Demotic, developed from Hieratic script around 650 BC. One of three scripts on the Rosetta Stone, it served as a bridge in deciphering hieroglyphs and Greek. A simplified form used for everyday administrative and commercial documents, it is the direct ancestor of Coptic script. "Demotic" means "of the people" in Greek.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Total signs200
Unicode Blocks
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Not yet encoded in Unicode. Formal allocation is pending due to undeciphered status or insufficient evidence.
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
Right to left (RTL)
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System
Abjad
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
08REACH