The Deseret First Book by Regents of Deseret University
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BOK.NAM.AD1868.v1
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Title |
The Deseret First Book by Regents of Deseret University
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Description |
An instructional book written in Deseret with the intention of teaching children how to read in the language.
The Deseret language was an effort made by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who settled in the Salt Lake Valley to "alleviate the problem of non-communication... created by the great influx of foreign speaking Saints" who immigrated there. The general idea was to create a hieroglyphic alphabet based on English grammar where each character represented an unchanging sound. It was "developed and encouraged by the Prophet Brigham Young and a few followers," but failed to achieve permanence in the community. It eventually died off "with Brigham Young in 1877," but is still used today by some scholars of Church history (Wintersteen). * * * Wintersteen, Larry Ray. A History of the Deseret Alphabet. Electronic version. Brigham Young University], 1970. |
Date Created |
1868 AD
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Publisher |
The Regents of the Deseret University
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Audience |
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Geographical Coverage |
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Temporal Coverage |
19th Century
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Format |
Print
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Collecting Areas |
The Deseret Box See all items with this value
History of Writing Collection See all items with this value
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Language |
Deseret
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Subject |
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Type |
Educational Pamphlet
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Bibliographic Citation |
The Deseret First Book. Vol. 1. 2 vol. Regents of the Deseret University, 1868.
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