Is there any proof that Reformed Egyptian was a real language?
There are a number of reformed Egyptian languages. It is a mistake to think that references to the plates being done in Reformed Egyptian means that this is actually what the language would have been called, rather than a description. For instance, what we use today is a reformed version of English. Compare it to true English — that of 900 years ago — and you would hardly believe that they are even related, either in the written characters or the words. Even today, with intensive communication between English-speaking cultures around the world, there are such conflicts as jail/gaol or corn/maize, not to mention hundreds of divergent spellings (color/colour, fiber/fibre, aluminum/aluminium) — and these are in common use today. We recognize many of these differences and call all of them “modern English,” though there is no language actually named Modern English. It’s a description, not a designation. Even in the United States over a mere 200 years symbology has changed. The originals