Dhimotiki

English

Alternative forms

• dhimotiki, Dimotiki

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek δημοτική (γλώσσα) (dimotikí (glóssa), “[language] of the people”).

Proper noun

Dhimotiki

1. 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.