What is demotic writing?

Demotic refers to either the ancient Egyptian

script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Delta,

or the stage of the Egyptian language following Late Egyptian and

preceding Coptic. The term was first used by the Greek historian

Herodotus to distinguish it from hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts.

By convention, the Word "Demotic" is capitalized in order to

distinguish it from demotic Greek.