Also called as popular script, demotic is the 

ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms

of hieratic used in the Nile Delta, and the stage of the Egyptian language written in this script,
following Late Egyptian and preceding Coptic. The term was first used by the Greek
historian Herodotus to distinguish it from hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts. By convention, the word
"Demotic" is capitalized in order to distinguish it from demotic Greek. The Demotic script was
referred to by the Egyptians as "document writing", which the 2nd century scholar Clement of
Alexandria called (epistolographikē) "letter writing", while early Western scholars, notably Thomas
Young, formerly referred to it as "Enchorial Egyptian". The script was used for more than a thousand
years, and during that time a number of developmental stages occurred. It is written and read from
right to left, while earlier hieroglyphics could be written from top to bottom, left to right, or right to left.
Parts of the demotic Greek Magical Papyri were written with a cypher script.