Deseret (Mormon)

Script Details

Deseret (Mormon)

The Sermon on the Mount in Deseret

By Deseret News 1859-02-16 - https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=2583489&q=%2A&page=1&rows=50&fd=title_t%2Cpaper_t%2Cdate_tdt%2Ctype_t&sort=date_tdt+asc&facet_paper=%22Deseret+News%22&facet_type=issue&year_t=1859#t_2583489, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54897364

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Data

Alternate Names Deseret Alphabet, The New Alphabet
ISO 15924 Dsrt 250
Type Alphabet
Family American
Direction LtR
Diacritics No
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used Yes
Glyphs 38
Inventor George D. Watt and regents of the University of Desert (now University of Utah)
Earliest Location University of Deseret (Utah), Utah, United States of America
Earliest Date 1847 CE
Latest Date Present (revived as a cultural heirloom)
Ancestry
    • Deseret (Mormon)

Overview

“Deseret is a phonemic alphabet devised in the 1850s to write English. It saw limited use for a few decades by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” - The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard 15.0

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 313-349 Blackwell Publishing
Powell, John W. W., original author: Beesley, Kenneth L. and Elzinga, Dirk 2019 Review of: An 1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written in the Deseret Alphabet, Vol. 85 (1), p. 168-170 International Journal of American Linguistics
The Unicode Consortium 2022 The Unicode Standard, Version 15.0, Chapter 20, p. 823-825 The Unicode Consortium