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1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written in the Deseret Alphabet

1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written in the Deseret Alphabet

          
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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 instructed the men to teach the Hopi to write in 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 in Deseret by one of the missionaries has remained in existence. For decades it sat unidentified in the Archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake Citya mystery document having no title, author, or date. But authors Beesley and Elzinga have now traced the manuscript's origin to the missionaries of 1859-60 and decoded its Hopi-English vocabulary written in the short-lived Deseret Alphabet. The resulting book offers a fascinating mix of linguistics, Mormon history, and Native American studies.
The volume reproduces all 486 vocabulary entries of the original manuscript, presenting the Deseret and the modern English and Hopi translations. It explains the history of the Deseret Alphabet as well as that of the Mormon missions to the Hopi, while fleshing out the background of the two missionaries, Marion Jackson Shelton, who wrote the manuscript, and his companion, Thales Hastings Haskell. The book will be of interest to linguists, historians, ethnographers, and others who are curious about the unique combination of topics this work connects.

About the Author: 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 pioneer trails in Utah and Arizona.

Dirk Elzinga is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Brigham Young University. He also holds a PhD from The University of Arizona in Linguistics. His primary research interests are the documentation, description, and analysis of the Uto-Aztecan languages of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781607813538
  • Publisher: University of Utah Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Utah Press
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 160781353X
  • Publisher Date: 26 May 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 227 gr


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