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, describes itself as having a portion originally written in reformed Egyptian characters.[1][better source needed]
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.[2] There is no archaeological, linguistic, and other evidence of the use of Egyptian writing in the ancient Americas.