Dhimotiki
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Greek δημοτική (γλώσσα) (dimotikí (glóssa), “[language] of the people”).
Proper noun
[edit]Dhimotiki
- Demotic Greek.
- 2005, Robert McColl Millar, Language, Nation and Power, Palgrave Macmillan, page 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.