“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
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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DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched
Data
Alternate Names | Deseret Alphabet, The New Alphabet |
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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 |
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Overview
Bibliography
Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
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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 |