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An 1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written in the Deseret Alphabet
Beesley, Kenneth R., Elzinga, Dirk
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Paperback. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC99; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. .
In 1859 Brigham Young sent two Mormon missionaries to live among the Hopi, ""reduce their dialect to a written language,"" and then teach it to the Hopi so that they would be able to read the Book of Mormon in their own tongue. Young also instructed the men to teach the Hopi the Deseret alphabet, a phonemic system that he was promoting in place of the traditional Latin alphabet. While the Deseret alphabet faded out of use in just over twenty years, the manuscript penned by one of the missionaries has remained in existence. For decades it sat unidentified in ... Read more
In 1859 Brigham Young sent two Mormon missionaries to live among the Hopi, ""reduce their dialect to a written language,"" and then teach it to the Hopi so that they would be able to read the Book of Mormon in their own tongue. Young also instructed the men to teach the Hopi the Deseret alphabet, a phonemic system that he was promoting in place of the traditional Latin alphabet. While the Deseret alphabet faded out of use in just over twenty years, the manuscript penned by one of the missionaries has remained in existence. For decades it sat unidentified in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607813538
SKU
V9781607813538
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About Beesley, Kenneth R., Elzinga, Dirk
Kenneth R. Beesley is a computational linguist with thirty years of experience in Natural Language Processing. He holds a D.Phil. in Epistemics from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a development architect in the Text Analysis group at SAP Labs. He spends his spare time researching the Deseret alphabet and other spelling reforms, Hopi history and language, and nineteenth-century ... Read more
Reviews for An 1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written in the Deseret Alphabet
Useful and interesting to all those interested in Hopi language, Hopi culture, and Hopi history."" - Peter Whiteley, American Museum of Natural History