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Prior to demotic, it was also used in administrative and private texts and in stories.
Demotic was mostly used in administrative and private texts, but also in stories and quite exceptionally in inscriptions.
Thus demotic would become the writing of the administration from the 26th Dynasty on, but it did not entirely replace hieratic as a handwriting, which was still being used in religious texts.
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