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Proposal to Modify the Encoding of Deseret Alphabet in Unicode Prop osal to Mo dify the Enco ding of Deseret Alphab et in Unico de Kenneth R. Beesley Xerox ResearchCenter Europ e [email protected] 25 April 2002 1 Summary It is prop osed that the enco ding of Deseret Alphab et in Unico de b e aug- mented at the earliest opp ortunity to include four additional characters, used in some versions of the Alphab et, b eing I 1. DESERET CAPITAL LETTER OI (IPA/O /) I 2. DESERET SMALL LETTER OI (IPA/O /) j 3. DESERET CAPITAL LETTER EW (IPA/u/) j 4. DESERET SMALL LETTER EW (IPA/u/) (Citation glyphs for these characters will b e provided later.) 2 A Short History of Deseret Alphab et Versions The Deseret Alphab et went through a numberofversions during its his- tory.Several of the versions were used to write signi cant, and still extant, manuscripts that are of interest to historians for their content and to lin- guists for the phonological clues they provide to the sp eech of the writers. Some of the versions of the Deseret Alphab et had only 38 letters, eachin upp ercase and lowercase; other versions had 40 letters, the two extra letters b eing the ones prop osed herein for addition to the Unico de enco ding. Summary of known Deseret Alphab et versions: 1. Stout Version. Printed on a four-page broadside (copies are extant) on or shortly b efore 21 March 1854, when it was seen by Hosea Stout and copied into his journal. 38 letters. No known manuscript texts exist. 1 2. RemyVersion. Seen in Salt LakeCityin1855bytravel writers Jules Remy and Julius Brenchley and printed as a plate in their published account(A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City, London:W. Je s, 1861). 40 letters. No known manuscript texts exist, but Remy wrote, \The new characters, intended for the printing-presses of the Salt Lake, were cast at St. Louis; but up to this day nothing has b een published, as far as we know, with these singular typ es. Wehave known them used in private corresp ondence, and seen them on some shop signs." 3. Haskell Version. Used for several months in 1859 by Thales H. Haskell to write his journal, whichisnow held in the library of Brigham Young University. 40 letters. This version was also used brie y, again in an extant journal, by M.J. Shelton. 4. Sp eller Version. Used in an extant undated manuscript, \The Deseret Phonetic Sp eller", in the Archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Salt LakeCity, Utah. 40 letters. The glyphs of this version suggest that it was written circa 1859. 5. Deseret News Version. Used in 1859, 1860 and 1864 to print articles in the Deseret News newspap er. 38 letters. 6. Bo ok Version. Used in 1868 and 1869 to print four b o oks: The Deseret First Bo ok (a primer), The Deseret Second Bo ok (a primer), The Bo ok of Mormon, Part I (intended as an advanced reader), and The Bo ok of Mormon (full text). 38 letters. At least four versions of the Alphab et, the Haskell Version (40 letters), the Sp eller Version (40 letters), the Deseret News Version (38 letters) and the Bo ok Version (38 letters), are used in signi cantextant texts that historians and linguists mightwant to enco de in Unico de. Other texts maycometo light. There is one other known version, the Watt Version, prop osed and brie y used in a single extant letter from George D. Watt to Brigham Young, dated 21 August 1854. However, this was a radical prop osal for changing the Alphab et, and there is no evidence (so far) that it was ever used outside the original letter of prop osal. 3 History of Deseret Alphab et in Unico de Currently only the Bo ok Version (38 letters, 76 characters) of the Deseret Alphab et is accommo dated in Unico de. John Jenkins of Apple, who cham- pioned the addition of the Deseret Alphab et, was honestly unaware that earlier 40-letter versions of the Alphab et had really b een used. 2 4 Justi cation for the Augmentation 4.1 Practical Need for 40-Letter Enco ding It has b een prop osed that the two extra letters in the 40-character versions could b e handled as ligature glyphs, thus existing only in the realm of fonts rather than in the underlying enco ding. I b elieve that this would b e a I j mistake. Phonological arguments for the phonemic status of /O / and / u/ are presented b elow. In the 40-letter versions of the Alphab et, the two letters in question were presented and used in a manner parallel to the other 38 letters. In practical use to day, if the two extra letters were treated as ligatures, then the underlying enco ding would presumably b e something like the sequences corresp onding to OI (or oI) and ju; when using 40-letter fonts, sp ecial render- ing routines would presumably need to detect these sequences and render them with single glyphs. This would preclude the p ossibility of enco ding I j a distinction b etween the /O / and the / u/diphthongs, on one hand, and the sequences /OI/ (or /oI/) and /ju/ on the other. Such sequences of vow- 1 els might app ear in 40-letter texts as sp elling mistakes or as useful and accurate enco dings of words suchassawing /sOIN/, drawing /drOIN/, caw- ing /kOIN/orblowing /bloIN/, throwing /TroIN/ etc. where there really is a sequence of vowels, separated by a morpheme b oundary, rather than a diphthong. It would b e highly annoying to have a rendering engine collapse an inten- tionally written sequence of vowels as in /sOIN/or/bloIN/into an unintended diphthong glyph. I reiterate my b elief that treating OI and EW as ligature glyphs would b e a mistake. 4.2 Historical Practice and Arguments In texts written in the 38-letter Bo ok Version, the phonemes represented by OI and EW were necessarily written with two letters. However, the variations in the alphab ets and statements from the time indicate real doubt and debate ab out the status of EW and OI. In the Deseret News Version, which is almost identical to the Bo ok Version, the editors (at least in the article printed 23 February 1859) o ered the following ap ology: \Since the arrival of the matrices, &c, for casting the Deseret Alphab et, it has b een determined to adopt another character to represent the sound of EW, but until we are prepared to cast that character, the characters [corresp onding 2 to] IU will b e used to represent the sound of EW in NEW." The Pitman \phonotypy" alphab ets of the day, whichwere the inspiration for the Deseret Alphab et, also vacillated on the issue of 38 vs. 40 letters. 1 I b elieve it should b e p ossible to enco de sp elling mistakes accurately. 2 The editorial intro duction is otherwise rather confused, suggesting also that a new letter would also b e added for representing the vowel in hair. 3 4.3 Mo dern Phonological Justi cation In the 19th century, \phonetics" was a hot science, but the concepts of the phoneme and phonology were not fully understo o d. Isaac Pitman was constantly mo difying his phonotypy alphab ets to capture new \sounds" that he thoughthewas hearing. From a mo dern phonological p oint of view, the Deseret Alphab et was clearly intended to b e a phonemic alphab et, and the question prop erly re- duces to this: Are OI and EW really phonemes in (standard dialects of ) English? For OI, the answer is uncontroversially yes. The diphthong in boy I I /O / is parallel phonetically to the other English diphthongs in high /a / and U how /a /. The vowels in hey and hoe and also diphthongized in most cases: I U /e / and /o /. It is of course p ossible to represent all suchdiphthongs or- thographically using sequences of two separate characters, but this do es not re ect the reality of their single-phoneme status in English. A diphthong, as 3 describ ed by phonologist Peter Ladefoged is a single vowel phoneme that \involves a change in quality within the one vowel" (op. cit. p. 76). In a I I U U phonemic alphab et like Deseret Alphab et, where /a /, /e /, /a / and /o / are (prop erly) enco ded as single characters and rendered with single glyphs, I there is no go o d justi cation for enco ding or rendering the diphthong /O / di erently. j The status of EW, i.e. / u/, is rather more interesting, and still some- what controversial. Peter Ladefoged (op. cit., pp. 77-78) argues that it should b e treated as a diphthong (i.e. a single phoneme) in English. The last diphthong, [ju] as in \cue", di ers from all the other diphthongs in that the more prominent part o ccurs at the end. Because it is the only vowel of this kind, many b o oks on English phonetics do not even consider it as a diphthong; they treat it as a sequence of a consonantfollowed byavowel and symb olize it by [ju] (or [yu], in the case of b o oks not using the IPA system of transcription). I have considered it to b e a diphthong b ecause of the way it patterns in English.
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