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Complete Twitter thread for Deseret Alphabet letters:
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๐ช
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๐ซ
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Final Deseret Alphabet post: The digraphs. In the 1869 Book of Mormon, the letters ๐ฆ /ษษช/ and ๐ง /ษชu/ are replaced by the digraphs ๐๐ <ษษช> and ๐๐
<ษชu> respectively. It uses the digraphs ๐๐ก <สษน> and ๐๐ก <ษษน> for /ษ(ษน)/ and /ษ(ษน)/. The digraph ๐๐ <hw> stands for /ส/.
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The 39th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ฆ /ษษช/. This is 1 of 2 optional letters for diphthongs. It's hugely problematic. There're 2 completely different forms of the letter: 1, as in the example image, is a ligature of ๐ /ษ/ + ๐/ษช/. The 2nd, which I see in my Firefox...
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The 38th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ฅ /ล/. Its name is /ษล/. This is the final letter of the standard DA used in the 1869 Book of Mormon, though there are two additional (optional) letters.
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The 37th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ค /n/. Its name is /ษn/. It is coincidentally similar to Ethiopic แ <nรค>.
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The 35th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ข /l/. Its name is /ษl/. ๐ข /l/ together with the DA letters ๐ /oส/ and ๐ /w/ form the group of DA letters that are nearly identical in shape to the corresponding Latin letters that share the same values in English.
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The 34th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ก /ษน/. Its name is /ษษน/. Its name continues to cause problems for modern users, who mistakenly believe it may always be used for the syllables /ษษน/ & /ษษน/.
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The 33rd letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ /ส/. Its name is /สi/. This is the last obstruent letter and the end of the fricative subclass.
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The 29th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ /s/. Its name is /ษs/. In the final DA standard, it does not have a syllabic value, but the famous 1860 Mormon gold coin uses it to abbreviate the /ษs/ in 'holiness' as ๐๐๐ข๐๐ค๐ h-oอกส-l-ษช-n-ษโฟs.
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The 28th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ /รฐ/. Its name is /รฐi/. English spelling does not distinguish this sound, the sound of <TH> in <THEN>, from /ฮธ/, the sound of <TH> in <THIN>. The DA keeps these sounds separate.
๐: ๐๐ โ ๐๐
๐ฆ: ๐๐ โ ๐๐
๐ง: ๐๐
โ ๐๐
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The 28th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ /ฮธ/. Its name is /ษฮธ/. English does not distinguish this sound, the sound of <TH> in <THIN> from /รฐ/, the sound of <TH> in <THEN>. The DA keeps these sounds separate.
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The 27th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ /v/. Its name is /vi/. It is derived from its voiceless counterpart, ๐ /f/, by an additional loop.
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The 26th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ /f/. Its name is /ษf/. It's the 1st letter of the fricative subclass, which goes from labio-dental to palato-alveolar, with -voice before +voice in each pair. Fricative letter names are strict: /ษC/ for -voice; /Ci/ for +voice.
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The 25th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ /g/. Its name is /geษช/. In isolation, it represents the word โgayโ.
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The 22nd letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ /tส/. Its name is /tสi/.
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The 19th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ /b/. Its name is /bi/. When this letter stands alone, it is read as its name and can represent 'be' or 'bee'.
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The 18th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ /p/. Its name is /pi/. This is the first letter of the subclass of obstruents, which are divided into stops & fricatives, labial-velar, in pairs of -voice & +voice.
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The 17th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ /h/. Its original name is unknown & is given as "h," which likely didn't mean /eษชtส/ because all other DA letter names include the sound they represent. In my 2005 book, I named it /hษ/, which I use when teaching it.
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The 16th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ /j/. Its name is /ji/, and in isolation as ๐, it stands for the word YE.
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The 15th letter of the Deseret Alphabet is ๐ /w/. This is the first DA letter that has a name that is not identical to the phoneme it represents. Its name is /wu/.
