“At the beginning of the book the first prophet-writer, Nephi, explained that his record was in a language that ‘consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians’ (1 Ne. 1:2). About a thousand years later Moroni explained that if the plates had been larger they would have been written in Hebrew (a Hebrew which he admitted had undergone change), but instead the plates had been written in characters called ‘reformed Egyptian’ … (Mormon 9:32–33). Although many questions remain unanswered, Nephi and Moroni mentioned Hebrew and Egyptian, which can serve as a starting point for comparison” (Largey, Book of Mormon Reference Companion, 117).