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The Illinois Deseret Consortium builds tools and gathers, transcribes, and edits primary-source materials for studying how the Deseret Alphabet was written, printed, taught, and interpreted. The main collections below emphasize attested spellings, transcribed sources, and documents that explain the alphabetโs historical use.
Comparative Lexicon
Search historically attested Deseret spellings by English word, with variant forms, occurrence counts, and source citations.
Read about the lexicon โบ Search the lexicon โบTranscriptions
Browse manuscript, printed, scriptural, and ephemera transcriptions prepared for close reading and citation.
View transcriptions โบHistorical Sources
Read documents that explain how nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints understood, defended, revised, and later remembered the alphabet.
Read the sources โบReading and Writing
Learn the letters, sound values, handwriting forms, and practical tools needed to read, write, and type Deseret texts.
Learn the alphabet โบ
