The Deseret First Book by Regents of Deseret University

 
Identifier
BOK.NAM.AD1868.v1
Title
The Deseret First Book by Regents of Deseret University
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).
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Wintersteen, Larry Ray. A History of the Deseret Alphabet. Electronic version. Brigham Young University], 1970.
Date Created
1868 AD
Publisher
The Regents of the Deseret University
Audience
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Geographical Coverage
Temporal Coverage
19th Century
Format
Print
Collecting Areas
History of Writing Collection
Language
Deseret
Subject
Type
Educational Pamphlet
Bibliographic Citation
The Deseret First Book. Vol. 1. 2 vol. Regents of the Deseret University, 1868.

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