What is the name of the cursive script that evolved from hieroglyphs around the 7th century BCE and became the administrative and legal script of late-period Egypt, preceding Coptic?

• A Hieratic
• B Abnormal Hieratic
• C Cursive Hieroglyphic
• D Demotic ✓

Demotic (from Greek 'demotikos', 'popular') was a highly simplified cursive script that, along with hieroglyphs and Greek, appeared on the Rosetta Stone — it was the script of everyday legal, commercial, and literary texts for nearly a thousand years until finally replaced by Coptic.