The church printed a number of materials in the Deseret Alphabet, including newspapers, children’s primers and Books of Mormon, the faith’s signature scripture, but the system was never ...

In 1853, after Watt taught shorthand to Brigham Young, the Mormon leader commissioned the British clerk to create a 38-character “Deseret alphabet.” The phonetic alphabet was meant to simplify ...

The Mormon church launched a strange new alphabet in the 1850s. For more than a century it was a little-known historical curiosity. But now it's more popular than ever. Film by Rachel Ross What ...