According to Hugh Nibley, the Book of Mormon student should notice that in Omni 1:25 Amaleki exhorts all men to believe in "the gift of speaking with tongues, and in the gift of interpreting languages . . ." If they had these gifts among them, such things indicate that they had more than one language, and they might have had quite a number of languages or dialects. [Hugh W. Nibley, Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1, p. 434]
“The Gift of Speaking with Tongues and in the Gift of Interpreting Languages”
According to Hugh Nibley, the Book of Mormon student should notice that in Omni 1:25 Amaleki exhorts all men to believe in "the gift of speaking with tongues, and in the gift of interpreting languages . . ." If they had these gifts among them, such things indicate that they had more than one language, and they might have had quite a number of languages or dialects. [Hugh W. Nibley, Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1, p. 434]