Research on the Deseret Alphabet

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Transcriptions | ๐“๐‘‰๐ฐ๐‘Œ๐‘…๐ฟ๐‘‰๐ฎ๐น๐‘‡๐ฒ๐‘Œ๐‘†

Unlocking historic Deseret Alphabet documents for research, teaching, and discovery.

Deseret Apostle
Deseret News Scriptures (1859โ€“60, 1864) Deseret First Book (1868) Deseret Second Book (1868) Book of Mormon (1869) Churchโ€“Taylor Letter (1855) D&C Code Names (1869) New Testament (1869) Political Tickets (1874, 1876) Plan 10 From Outer Space (1994)

Spelling Resources | ๐๐น๐ฏ๐‘Š๐ฎ๐‘ ๐ก๐จ๐‘…๐ฌ๐‘‰๐‘…๐ฏ๐‘†

Authentic 19th-century spellings of English words in the Deseret Alphabet.

โ˜… Comparative Lexicon of the Deseret Alphabet | ๐—๐ฑ๐‘‹๐น๐ฐ๐‘‰๐ฒ๐ป๐ฎ๐‘‚ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฟ๐‘…๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐‘Œ ๐ฑ๐‘‚ ๐‘„ ๐”๐ฏ๐‘…๐จ๐‘‰๐ฏ๐ป ๐ˆ๐‘Š๐‘๐ฐ๐บ๐ฏ๐ป

The Deseret Spelling Book | ๐œ ๐”๐ฏ๐‘…๐จ๐‘‰๐ฏ๐ป ๐๐น๐ฏ๐‘Š๐ฎ๐‘ ๐’๐ณ๐ฟ

Typography | ๐“๐ด๐น๐ฑ๐‘€๐‘‰๐ฐ๐‘๐ฎ

Download free Deseret Alphabet fonts and use them to create documents and art.

Mellifera (Font) Xylocopa (Font) Xenoglossa (Font)

Historiography | ๐๐ฎ๐‘…๐ป๐ฌ๐‘‰๐จ๐ฑ๐‘€๐‘‰๐ฐ๐‘๐ฎ

This section features key documents and scholarship tracing the history and evolving interpretation of the Deseret Alphabet.

Richardsโ€“Bancroft Letter (1885)

Translator | ๐“๐‘‰๐ฐ๐‘Œ๐‘…๐‘Š๐ฉ๐ป๐ฒ๐‘‰