Patrons of Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library can learn the ABCs of the Deseret Alphabet in a L. Tom Perry Special Collection exhibit available through the end of October. Brigham Young ...

Two Illinois professors, both BYU grads, have made searchable transcripts of texts written in the 19th-century Deseret Alphabet.

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Catherine Falzone, cataloger at ...

Discover the history and cultural legacy of Utah’s unique Deseret Alphabet. The Designing Deseret Symposium dives into the origins and influence of the Deseret Alphabet, a phonetic writing system ...

A little-known linguistic curiosity from early Utah history is still in use. Well, at least with a few people. Rick Shumway is one of the small numbers of people who still know President Brigham Young ...

ANTH copy 39088019677210 gift of Torben C. Rick. Reproduces the dictionary compiled by two Mormon missionaries to the Hopi and written in a non-Roman phonemic alphabet that Brigham Young was promoting ...