DEMOTIC LANGUAGE Synonyms

• belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public

• having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual

• a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

• common to or shared by two or more parties

• commonly encountered

• being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

• of or associated with the great masses of people

• of low or inferior quality or value

• lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

• to be expected; standard

• characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation

• found in the ordinary course of events

• appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions

• commonplace and ordinary

• not formal

• used of spoken and written language

• not officially recognized or controlled

• having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere

• regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public

• carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large

• representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large

• (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people)

• a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

• the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

• being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

• of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use

• a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script

• the modern Greek vernacular

• of or for the common people

• relating to modern Greece or its inhabitants or its language

• the modern Greek vernacular

• the modern Greek vernacular