Reformed Egyptian
Purported script from which the Book of Mormon was translated / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Demotic (Egyptian).
The Book of Mormon, a work of scripture of the Latter Day Saint movement, is asserted by both itself and Joseph Smith, the founder of the movement, to have been originally written in reformed Egyptian characters.[1][2]
Scholarly reference works on languages do not acknowledge the existence of either a "reformed Egyptian" language or "reformed Egyptian" script as it was described by Joseph Smith.[3] There is no archaeological, linguistic, and other evidence of the use of Egyptian writing in the ancient Americas.