demotic

IPA(Pronunciation)

(linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.

Japanese Meaning

一般大衆が日常的に使用する言語、つまり庶民の言語

The historian analyzed demotic to trace how ordinary people expressed their concerns.

その歴史家は、庶民がどのように不満を表現したかをたどるために、庶民の言葉を分析した。

Sense（1）

(linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.

Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.

demotics

（ plural ）