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The Ten Commandments were and are in Hebrew. It is likely that Moses, if he was a real person, also spoke ancient Hebrew (and probably also ancient Egyptian).
The Ten Commandments were written by God in the Hebrew language.
If Moses lived around 1300 b.c., then the likely alphabet of the Hebrews was, in today's terms, called Proto-Canaanite - the parent language of Hebrew and a descendant language of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
However, Hebrew was not a developed written language for at least another 300 years. It's more likely that if they were put into stone that they were in hieroglyphics. Though Hebrew was spoken then, Moses would was raised in an Egyptian royal house, so he would have been able to read the written language at the time. It's doubtful that the tablets were no more than symbolic because the scroll was found in the Ark of the Covenant, not the tablets.
Most of what is attributed to Moses would have been oral tradition until the Hebrew alphabet was developed. Also note that the Ten Commandants are very similar to the Negative Confessions in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. This would tend to reinforce that it was probably hieroglyphics. Israel was adamant about finding and keeping its own identity, so they would not have continued with hieroglyphics. Many connections to Egypt are missing from the Exodus story, including the name of the pharaoh. Not mentioning the language of the tablets would follow this practice.
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