 As demonstrated by Ezekiel Kutscher, the Kaufmann manuscript is the most complete early manuscript of the Mishnah that has survived.It retains the original forms of the language as it was spoken by Hazal in the 2nd century, not mixing in biblical forms.This language belongs to the western dialect of the language of the Sages; that is to say, the dialect used in the Land of Israel, as opposed to the Babylonian dialect.