I just happened to come across this in the Sage Advice column too.
TLDR: moon druids can speak while in elemental wide shape form according to RAI.
Can a Circle of the Moon druid speak the languages it knows while in the form of an elemental? Yes, since the elementals listed in Elemental Wild Shape can speak. A literal interpretation (RAW) of Wild Shape could reasonably lead you to think that transformed druids can speak only languages that appear in an elemental’s stat block, but the intent (RAI) is that druids retain their knowledge, including of languages, when they transform and can speak the languages they know if an adopted form can speak.
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I just happened to come across this in the Sage Advice column too.
TLDR: moon druids can speak while in elemental wide shape form according to RAI.