Meanings
alternative dhimotiki · alternative Dimotiki
- Demotic Greek.
To many, Dhimotiki was seen as a more pliable, more creative, variety than Katharevousa.
2005, Robert McColl Millar, Language, Nation and Power, Palgrave Macmillan, page 881 more example
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.
2019, Language and Society, Andrew Simpson, Oxford University Press, p. 116
Origin
- Greekδημοτική“[language] of the people”
- EnglishDhimotiki
Borrowed from Greek δημοτική (γλώσσα) (dimotikí (glóssa), “[language] of the people”).
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