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A phonemic alphabet for a territory.
Also known as: Deseret script
The script devised in the nineteenth century to write English phonemically, promoted in the Utah Territory.
Writes English with one letter to a sound in an alphabet designed for the purpose.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Promoted with institutional backing, printing and schoolbooks and abandoned within about two decades, mainly because the cost of reprinting an entire literature in it was never recoverable — the failure was economic rather than linguistic.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Thirty-eight letters of rounded strokes with no ascenders or descenders, giving an even band of text, and no capital forms.