Original sentence: "Other LDS scholars note that other languages evolved from Egyptian through the centuries and have speculated that the term "reformed Egyptian" might refer to a form of Egyptian writing known as hieratic, a priestly shorthand for hieroglyphics thousands of years old by the first millennium B., or early Demotic, a derivative of hieratic, perhaps used in northern Egypt fifty years before the time that the Book of Mormon prophet-patriarch Lehi is said to have left Jerusalem for the Americas.I believe I edited this a while ago, but this article absolutely doesn't mention anything to do with this theory, and I haven't seen this theory mentioned by any other LDS scholars:.Nevertheless, the Book of Mormon states that no other people knew the language of Moroni's civilization, and demotic or hieratic were understood and used for centuries in Egypt.The Book of Mormon prophet Moroni implies that his record is written in "reformed Egyptian" both because it took less space on the plates than Hebrew and because of the evolution of his own language since his ancestors left Jerusalem
Edited sentence: Inside the Book of Mormon a character named Moroni states that the record is written in "reformed Egyptian" both because it took less space on the plates than Hebrew and because of the evolution of his language since his ancestors had left Jerusalem.That statement is problematic since Hebrew is actually more compact than Egyptian, according to linguist Richard Packham