Deseret

Mormon Phonetic Alphabet

Deseret vowels
long short -i -u
๐€ ๐จ FLEECE โŸจฤ“โŸฉ ๐† ๐ฎ KIT โŸจiโŸฉ (๐ง ๐‘ MULE โŸจyลซโŸฉ)
๐ ๐ฉ FACE โŸจฤโŸฉ ๐‡ ๐ฏ DRESS โŸจeโŸฉ
๐‚ ๐ช PALM โŸจรคโŸฉ ๐ˆ ๐ฐ TRAP โŸจaโŸฉ ๐Œ ๐ด PRICE โŸจฤซโŸฉ ๐ ๐ต MOUTH โŸจawโŸฉ
๐ƒ ๐ซ THOUGHT โŸจoโŸฉ ๐‰ ๐ฑ LOT โŸจรดโŸฉ (๐ฆ ๐‘Ž CHOICE โŸจoyโŸฉ)
๐„ ๐ฌ GOAT โŸจลโŸฉ ๐Š ๐ฒ STRUT โŸจuโŸฉ
๐… ๐ญ GOOSE โŸจลซโŸฉ ๐‹ ๐ณ FOOT โŸจรผโŸฉ

Deseret consonants
labial dental alveolar palatal velar/
glottal
approximant ๐Ž ๐ถ /w/ โŸจwโŸฉ ๐ ๐ท /j/ โŸจyโŸฉ ๐ ๐ธ /h/ โŸจhโŸฉ
plosive voiceless ๐‘ ๐น /p/ โŸจpโŸฉ ๐“ ๐ป /t/ โŸจtโŸฉ ๐• ๐ฝ /tสƒ/ โŸจchโŸฉ ๐— ๐ฟ /k/ โŸจkโŸฉ
voiced ๐’ ๐บ /b/ โŸจbโŸฉ ๐” ๐ผ /d/ โŸจdโŸฉ ๐– ๐พ /dส’/ โŸจjโŸฉ ๐˜ ๐‘€ /g/ โŸจgโŸฉ
fricative voiceless ๐™ ๐‘ /f/ โŸจfโŸฉ ๐› ๐‘ƒ /ฮธ/ โŸจthโŸฉ ๐ ๐‘… /s/ โŸจsโŸฉ ๐Ÿ ๐‘‡ /สƒ/ โŸจshโŸฉ
voiced ๐š ๐‘‚ /v/ โŸจvโŸฉ ๐œ ๐‘„ /รฐ/ โŸจdhโŸฉ ๐ž ๐‘† /z/ โŸจzโŸฉ ๐  ๐‘ˆ /ส’/ โŸจzhโŸฉ
liquid ๐ก ๐‘‰ /ษน/ โŸจrโŸฉ
๐ข ๐‘Š /l/ โŸจlโŸฉ
nasal ๐ฃ ๐‘‹ /m/ โŸจmโŸฉ ๐ค ๐‘Œ /n/ โŸจnโŸฉ ๐ฅ ๐‘ /ล‹/ โŸจngโŸฉ

References

  1. Unicode Character Code Charts. unicode.org.
    1. โ€œDeseret.โ€ unicode.org.
  2. WG2 Document Registry, Unicodeยฎ Technical Committee Document Registry, unicode.org, unicode.org.
    1. Kenneth R. Beesley. Proposal to Modify the Encoding of Deseret Alphabet in Unicode. 2002-05-17, N2474, L2/02-169, unicode.org, unicode.org.
  3. The Unicodeยฎ Standard: Version 15.0 โ€“ Core Specification. September 2022, unicode.org.
    1. โ€œDeseret.โ€ pp. 823โ€“825, unicode.org.
  4. Deseret (Mormon) [Dsrt]. ScriptSource, SIL International, scriptsource.org.
  5. ALA-LC Romanization Tables. American Library Association, Library of Congress, loc.gov.
    1. Kjerste Christensen. โ€œProposed ALA-LC Romanization Table for the Deseret Alphabet.โ€ 2015-10-27, loc.gov.
    2. โ€œDeseret.โ€ 2016-02-24, loc.gov.
  6. Noto Deseret. Google, github.com.
  7. [The Deseret first book] ๐œ ๐”๐‡๐๐€๐ก๐‡๐“ ๐™๐Š๐ก๐๐“ ๐’๐‹๐—. [The Regents of the Deseret University] ๐œ ๐ก๐€๐–๐‡๐ค๐“๐ ๐‰๐š ๐œ ๐”๐‡๐๐€๐ก๐‡๐“ ๐๐†๐…๐ค๐†๐š๐Š๐ก๐๐†๐“๐†, 1868, archive.org.
  8. [The Deseret second book] ๐œ ๐”๐‡๐๐€๐ก๐‡๐“ ๐๐‡๐—๐Š๐ค๐” ๐’๐‹๐—. [The Regents of the Deseret University] ๐œ ๐ก๐€๐–๐‡๐ค๐“๐ ๐‰๐š ๐œ ๐”๐‡๐๐€๐ก๐‡๐“ ๐๐†๐…๐ค๐†๐š๐Š๐ก๐๐†๐“๐†, 1868, archive.org.
  9. [Joseph Smith, Jun.] ๐–๐„๐ž๐‡๐™ ๐๐ฃ๐†๐›, ๐–๐†๐…๐ค. [The Book of Mormon, Part I] ๐œ ๐’๐‹๐— ๐‰๐š ๐ฃ๐ƒ๐ก๐ฃ๐Š๐ค, ๐‘๐‚๐ก๐“ I. The Deseret University, Russell Bros., New York, 1869, archive.org.
  10. [Joseph Smith, Jun.] ๐–๐„๐ž๐‡๐™ ๐๐ฃ๐†๐›, ๐–๐†๐…๐ค. [The Book of Mormon] ๐œ ๐’๐‹๐— ๐‰๐š ๐ฃ๐ƒ๐ก๐ฃ๐Š๐ค. The Deseret University, Russell Bros., New York, 1869, archive.org.
    1. Facsimile reprint, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1990, archive.org.
  11. Kenneth Reid Beesley. The Deseret Alphabet: Can Orthographical Reform for English Succeed?. Brigham Young University, Fall 1975, ucla.edu.
  12. Kenneth R. Beesley. โ€œThe Deseret Alphabet in Unicode.โ€ 22nd International Unicode Conference, San Jose, California, September 2002, [Written 2002-08-14, Corrections 2004-06-23, Edited 2007-09-12], ucla.edu.
  13. Kenneth R. Beesley. โ€œTypesetting the Deseret Alphabet with LaTeX and METAFONT.โ€ TeX, XML, and Digital Typography, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3130, Springer, 2004, pp. 68โ€“111, researchgate.net, academia.edu, tug.org, doi.org, ucla.edu.
  14. Kenneth R. Beesley, Dirk Elzinga. An 1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written in the Deseret Alphabet. The University of Utah Press, 2015, doi.org.