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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<ref>{{Sourcetext |source= Book of Mormon |version=1981 |book= Mormon |chapter= 9 |verse= 32 }}</ref> on plates of metal or "ore"<ref>{{Sourcetext |source= Book of Mormon |version=1981 |book= 1 Nephi |chapter= 19 |verse= 1 }}</ref> by prophets living in the Western Hemisphere from perhaps as early as the 6th century BC until as late as the 5th century AD. [[Joseph Smith]], the movement's founder, published the Book of Mormon in 1830 as a translation of these [[golden plates]]. Smith said that after he finished the translation, he returned the golden plates to the [[angel Moroni]].
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.<ref name="standard language references">Standard language references such as Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, eds., ''The World's Writing Systems'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) (990 pages); David Crystal, ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language'' (Cambridge University Press, 1997); and Roger D. Woodard, ed., ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages'' (Cambridge University Press, 2004) (1162 pages) contain no reference to "reformed Egyptian." "Reformed Egyptian" is also ignored in Andrew Robinson, ''Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts'' (New York: McGraw Hill, 2002), although it is mentioned in Stephen Williams, ''Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Prehistory'' (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991).</ref> The existence of archaeological, linguistic,
==Reformed Egyptian and the Book of Mormon==
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