Dhimotiki (Greek Δημοτική, IPA / ðiˌmotiˈci/) or Demotic Greek is the standard language of Greece. Dhimotiki, based on the dialect of Athens, was standardized in the early 20th century. It is now (again) the official language of Greece, replacing the "purist" (Katharevousa) form which had previously been the official language.
English words in the last decades have been adapted to Greek phonology and grammar. English loan words are found mainly in slang used by young people and in technical terminology.
DemoticGreek (Δημοτική): During the middle ages the vernacular language of the Byzantines, notably in mainland Greece, Asia Minor and Constantinople.
DemoticGreek is now the official language of the Hellenic Republic (Greece), and is therefore also referred as the "Koine Modern Greek" (common modern Greek) or less strictly as "Modern Greek".
Koine Modern Greek evolves from the Southern Demotic idioms, mainly the ones of Peloponnese.
Early Demotic (often referred to by the German term Frühdemotisch) developed in Lower Egypt during the later part of the 25th Dynasty, particularly on stelae from the Serapeum at Saqqara.
By the end of the third century BC, Greek was more important as it was the administrative language of the country; Demotic contracts lost most of their legal force unless there was a note in Greek of being registered with the authorities.
The last dated example of the Demotic script is dated to 11 December 452 AD, and consists of a graffiti on the walls of the temple of Isis on Philae.
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