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	Deseret alphabet
		The Deseret alphabet was devised as an alternative to the Latin alphabet for writing the English language.
		Brigham Young's secretary, George D. Watt, was among the designers of the Deseret alphabet and is thought to have used the Pitman English Phonotypic Alphabet of 1847 as the model.
		Blissymbolics, Deseret, Graffiti, Interbet, Quikscript/Read Alphabet, Shavian, Shorthand, Solresol
	www.omniglot.com /writing/deseret.htm (220 words)

	Deseret ConScript Unicode Standard
		The Deseret Alphabet was an attempt at English spelling reform promulgated by the leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) in the mid-19th century.
		The Deseret Alphabet had a number of goals -- or, more accurately, its proponents used a number of arguments to foster its use, and not all of them were compatible.
		There are at least two modern implementations of the Deseret Alphabet, and a children's activity book published in honor of Utah's centennial includes a number of puzzles based on it.
	faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~jmatthew/articles/deseret.html (1014 words)

	AllRefer.com - alphabet (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		The precursors of the alphabet were the iconographic and ideographic writing of ancient man, such as wall paintings, cuneiform, and the hieroglyphic writing of the Egyptians.
		The alphabet of modern Western Europe is the Roman alphabet, the base of most alphabets used for the newly written languages of Africa and America, as well as for scientific alphabets.
		Two European alphabets of the late Roman era were the runes and the ogham.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/alphabet.html (439 words)

	Simplified Spelling Society : Principles of SR part 1.
		Such radical new alphabets are based on the idea that the present alphabet is so irregular and inconsistent that a complete overhaul of the alphabet is necessary; and they are devised so as to save space, time of writing, and may be considered as forms of shorthand.
		The alphabet of the George Bernard Shaw contest and the Deseret Alphabet of Brigham Young are examples of this type of reform.
		A second obstacle to the acceptance of augmented alphabets is the great difficulty of devising new letter shapes that harmonize with present shapes in upper and lower case, and in all fonts of type, as well as in handwriting.
	www.spellingsociety.org /bulletins/b83/winter/principles1.php (3579 words)

	This Segment Brought to you by the Letter "G" : by Stefene Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It was not an alphabet for poetry or moonshine jugs.
		Young continued to push the use of the alphabet, but after his death in 1877, it was dropped — the federal government was cracking down on polygamy and everyone had less heady concerns, like being shot in the eye or sent to prison.
		So even though the Deseret Alphabet is "a bit spotty and inconsistent, particularly in its handling of dipthongs," remember that in the beginning was the word — and the word was made of alphabet (this show was brought to you by the letter G).
	www.pifmagazine.com /SID/526 (1066 words)

	Nevada Historical Society - Brigham Young & the Deseret Alphabet
		Alphabets of ancient Britain were examined and rejected as sources, but that of the Phoenicians has yielded a few clues.
		Alphabet characters also appeared on Mormon coins for a time, and the Deseret News serialized The Sermon on the Mount in the new system in February and March 1859.
		Two school primers, the Deseret First and Second Readers, based on the famed McGuffey Readers, were printed in 1868 and the Book of Mormon and the Book of Nephi were published in the new alphabet the next year.
	dmla.clan.lib.nv.us /docs/museums/reno/thiswas/deseret.htm (851 words)

	Deseret
		A deseret is a "honeybee" in the language of the Book of Mormon.
		It has been variously used as the name for a university (now the University of Utah) and a state (Deseret was a proposed name for Utah), and various businesses use it as part of their name in and around Utah.
		The state symbol of Utah is a beehive.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/de/Deseret.html (61 words)

	Wikipedia
		Some, such as Shavian, Alphabet 26, and the Deseret alphabet were devised as English spelling reforms.
		The Cherokee syllabary, N'Ko, the Fraser alphabet, and the Pollard script were invented to allow certain spoken languages that did not already have writing systems to be written.
		The Glagolitic alphabet or Glagolitsa is the oldest known Slavonic alphabet.
	www.foolswisdom.com /~sbett/wikipedia.htm (1073 words)

	Deseret alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Deseret alphabet is a phonetic alphabet developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah) under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
		Another goal in creating the Deseret Alphabet was to offer all faithful Mormons a unifying script that might encourage a sense of community among recent European converts, as well as a higher sense of difference from non-Mormons.
		The Deseret Alphabet was developed primarily by a committee made up of the university's board of regents and church leaders Parley P. Pratt and Heber C. Kimball.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deseret_alphabet (520 words)

	Utah History to Go
		The new language had an alphabet of 38 characters and was an outgrowth of a frustrating effort by the Board of Regents of the University of Deseret (today's University of Utah) to simplify English.
		For nearly twenty years Brigham Young strove to persuade his followers that the alphabet would restore purity to the language, yet there was the inherent flaw in its inception, having developed as it did to a degree from Pitman Shorthand, and individuals unfamiliar with the nuances of orthography and unprepared for the complexities of language.
		Letters written with this Alphabet are as incomprehensible as the movements of woman or the hieroglyphics of the Chinese and the Egyptians.
	historytogo.utah.gov /salt_lake_tribune/in_another_time/052994.html (855 words)

	Republic of Molossia - Deseret Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Deseret Alphabet was designed as an alternative to the Latin alphabet for writing the English language.
		Brigham Young's secretary, George D. Watt, was among the designers of the Deseret Alphabet.
		Note: Use of the Deseret Alphabet does not imply support of or adherence to LDS teachings and practices.
	www.molossia.org /alphabet.html (218 words)

	The Deseret Alphabet
		The Deseret Alphabet is now used mostly by hobbyists and studied by historians as it preserves the way the English language was spoken in the 1860s in Utah.
		Contrary to the assumptions of outside critics, who have claimed that this alphabet was intended to cloak LDS writings from Gentile view and further isolate the Mormons in their mountain retreats, the Deseret Alphabet was intended solely to ease the burden imposed upon students learning to read and write English.
		Brigham Young's Deseret Alphabet exists in the 21st century mainly as a historic curiosity for descendants of early Mormon pioneers and language aficionados.
	www.deseretalphabet.com (1683 words)

	The Deseret Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Deseret Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet for the spelling of English promulgated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("Mormon") in the 1850's and 1860's.
		Inasmuch as the Deseret Alphabet is included in Unicode, and has been since Unicode 3.1 was released in March 2001, production and exchange of text data for the Deseret Alphabet should be done using Unicode.
		I proposed the Deseret Alphabet in late 1996 as such as script, and it was quickly accepted.
	homepage.mac.com /jhjenkins/Deseret/Deseret.html (1504 words)

	Alphabet Soup
		Alphabet Soup is a project which attempts to determine a number of things about the shapes of letters in several different writing systems.
		Alphabet Soup is implemented in a computer program which uses the building blocks and grammar to do several things.
		Alphabet Soup handles `?' and `!,' but not `&.' That said, it would be nice to add some basic punctuation to the Alphabet Soup system, so the "randomize text" function preserved punctuation.
	www.theory.org /artprojects/alphabetsoup/main.html (1234 words)

	Deseret - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
		The Deseret range was introduced with version 3.1 of the Unicode Standard and is located in Plane 1 (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane), which requires the enabling of surrogates in Windows 2000; these characters cannot easily be displayed in earlier versions of Windows.
		Deseret is a phonemic alphabet for writing English, and was developed in the 1850s at the University of Deseret and promoted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
		The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
	www.alanwood.net /unicode/deseret.html (250 words)

	Utah History Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Deseret Alphabet was conceived by Brigham Young, who thought of the reform of the English language as just one more part of reforming the world.
		The symbols were modified from the English alphabet, from Pitman shorthand and longhand signs, and from Watt's imagination.
		Young realized that the Deseret Alphabet had never been popular, perhaps because it involved extensive relearning when there were so many other pressing needs.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/d/DESERETALPHA.html (490 words)

	The Deseret Alphabet - Western Experiments in Writing Systems - John Dilworth Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The alphabet was seen as a solution to help teach the many immigrants arriving to the area the English Language.
		For me, the deseret alphabet is a great example of willingness to push the limits and attempt change.
		Ultimately this experiment failed, but as with all failed projects, the relics that remain remind us that not all good ideas will work, and that it is ok and better to have tried and failed, than to not have tried at all.
	www.johndilworth.com /sections/design/deseret-alphabet (340 words)

	Chapter 26--Bancroft's History of Utah 1540-1886
		In the normal department the curriculum, apart from the theory of teaching, was about the same as in the junior classes of a San Francisco high-school, and in the preparatory department almost identical with the subjects usually taught in the lower grades of a grammar-school.
		Finally, at a session held in December of this year, characters were adopted, under the style of the Deseret alphabet, the number of letters, or rather sounds, being thirty-two, of which the so-called vocal sounds were eleven, including six long, with short sounds to correspond, four double and one aspirate, and twenty-one articulate sounds.
		In 1859-60 the Deseret alphabet was used in keeping Brigham's ledger, and to some extent in the historian's office and in journalism.
	www.utlm.org /onlinebooks/bancroftshistoryofutah_chapter26.htm (10406 words)

	Brigham Young's Deseret Alphabet
		After the thirty-eight-character alphabet (including the Latin letters C, D, L, O, P, S, W) was devised, the committee had a type font cast in St. Louis and some printing was done with it.
		Thus the long sound of the letter e in meter was represented by a character resembling the Greek sigma reversed, the double sound of woo in wood by one resembling omega, the aspirate by phi, and the articulate sound of f by rho.
		At a meeting of the board of regents, held in March 1854, some of it was presented to the members; and between that date and 1869 were published in the Deseret alphabet a primer, the book of Mormon, and the first book of Nephi.
	www.utlm.org /onlineresources/deseretalphabet.htm (1068 words)

	Proposal for encoding the Deseret Alphabet in ISO 10646
		Proposal for encoding the Deseret Alphabet in ISO 10646
		This would meet the needs of the modern user community (such as it is), and also provide for the computerization of such historical records as exist using it.
		The original version of the Deseret Alphabet (from reference 1).
	pipin.tmd.ns.ac.yu /unicode/www.unicode.org/pending/deseret/Proposal.html (1359 words)

	Alternate Alphabet English Travel Phrases
		The Deseret (or Mormon) alphabet was created in the 1850s to replace the Latin alphabet with a more phonetic system.
		The Ewellic alphabet was invented in 1980 by Doug Ewell as an alternate, phonemic way to write English.
		This phonetic alphabet was used in America in the 1800s to help deaf children learn spoken language.
	www.travelphrases.info /languages/alt.htm (444 words)

	The Deseret Alphabet as an Aid in Pronouncing Book of Mormon Names - Maxwell Institute JBMS
		In the Deseret Alphabet we have a record of the pronunciation in vogue in 1869.
		Preparation of this "alphabet" was begun in 1852 by a committee called by Brigham Young under the auspices of the "University of Deseret" in Salt Lake City.
		The Deseret Alphabet version made it sound like "shem-ish" rather than the "kem-ish" we use nowadays for one of the early Nephite writers (see Omni 1:8).
	farms.byu.edu /display.php?id=212&table=jbms (524 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Writing System/Simplified Lang
		For several centuries, language scholars had felt the need for an international alphabet that would represent the same sounds regardless of language and regardless of how a sound might be spelled in a given language.
		The alphabet is often called "futhark" from the first 6 letters ("th" is one letter).
		As other alphabets grew in popularity, with a corresponding decline in the knowledge of runes, the latter were used as magic signs as well as for writing secret messages.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/simpwrth.htm (2188 words)

	Deseret Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		This reader was published in 1868 in the Deseret alphabet.
		Its title reads "The Deseret Second Book by the Regents of the Deseret University." Development of the Deseret Alphabet was begun in October 1853, and a few books, including the Book of Mormon, were published in this phonetic script before 1870.
		Scriptural passages written in the Deseret Alphabet appeared in the Deseret News in 1859.
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/daily/history/1844_1877/deseret_alphabet_eom.htm (459 words)

	alphabet — FactMonster.com
		Q, letter of the alphabet - Q, 17th letter of the alphabet, corresponding to the koppa of western Greek alphabets.
		M, letter of the alphabet - M, 13th letter of the alphabet, usually representing a bilabial nasal as in the English much.
		C, letter of the alphabet - C, third letter of the alphabet.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0803470.html (384 words)

	All progress depends on the unreasonable man \| MetaFilter
		When George Bernard Shaw died in 1950, his will provided for the development of a new alphabet for the English language, an alphabet of at least forty letters that could be used to write English without all the oddities of our traditional spelling.
		Learn more about the history and origins of The Shaw Alphabet, and look at some of its competitors, including the initial teaching alphabet, Inglish Simplifíd Speling and The Unifon Alphabet - a 40 character alphabet resulting from the Shaw alphabet competition.
		I dig the Deseret alphabet devised by Brigham Young myself, if only because it seems like more of a tool for social control than an experiment in graphological efficiency.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/28502 (395 words)

	Times & Seasons » Hives and Honeybees
		Although the petition and the name were rejected two years later when the territorial form of government in Utah was established, it is clear that Deseret was the first choice for the name of the State.
		The State of Deseret was reorganized in 1862 for 8 years when the Civil War again gave the Saints hope of statehood.
		There was the the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society, Deseret National Bank, Deseret Telegraph, Deseret Silk Association, Deseret Museum, Deseret Mercantile Association, Deseret Iron Company, Deseret Theater, Deseret Currency and in 1854 Brigham Young even introduced the Deseret Alphabet.
	www.timesandseasons.org /?p=905 (2313 words)

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