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Sangheili is a language created for the Halo: The Television Series created by David Peterson, creator of the Dothraki language used in Game of Thrones,[1], and Carl Buck.[2]
Overview
Sangheili, the language featured in the show, is a language spoken by the Sangheili, as well as generally inside the Covenant, an alien alliance that worships the Halo Array. The language is a lightly inflectional head-final language with distinctive vowel length and ejectives.
Sangheili uses Standard American Romanization. Ejective consonants are written with a following apostrophe, and the r is the tap [ɾ]. The language has long vowels, represented by a doubled vowel, and occasionally has geminates, also written doubly. Likely the most challenging aspect of the phonology are the consonants with a velar release. These are written as if they began with a consonant cluster, but they occur at every point of articulation—namely, pkh [pˣ], tkh [tˣ], kkh [kˣ], and qkh [qˣ], and even the fricative (or fricative-ending) consonants skh [sˣ], shkh [ʃˣ], and chkh [tʃˣ]
Transcripts
Peterson posts transcripts for the words and their translations in a series of posts on Archive of Our Own, accessible here.
Primer
Dictionary
Vocabulary
Nouns/Names
- Domo: Human/s
- Ghashank'o: Demon
- Sangheli: Sangheili
- Hijaro: Blessed One
- Q'iitu: Mercy
- T'iiwajo: Heretic/s
- Oq’ogakha: Keystone
- Maduriga: Madrigal
Words
- Eya: No
Eratives
The ergative "o" is placed directly after a noun that effects the action of the verb.
For example, in "K’uucho o domo ruuk’inatan" - "The warrior attacks the human"
k'uucho "warrior" is followed by "o" because it’s the one that causes the attacking to happen. Domo gets no tag.
Verbs
- ch'in ~ ch’injin: "stab"
- naya ~ nenaya: "fertilize egg"
- opkho ~ pkhaapkho: "end"
- pkhungo ~ pkhubungo: "sleep"
- qkhoso ~ qkhoghoso: "walk"
- satkha ~ sasatkha: "be sure"
- tkhop’o ~ tkhaadop’o: "name”
- zaya ~ zaazaya: "expand"
Khawa "to say":
- gaikhawa: guess
- khekhawa: respond
- juukhawa: claim
- t’ikhawa: chat
Ghaina "to hear":
- banghaina: sense
- t’ighaina: understand
Duje "to molt"
- moduje: lose track of
- juunduje: make look good
- gaiduje: sully
Sources
- ^ Twitter, Kiki Wolfkill (@k_wolfkill): "@CharlieBMurphy literally learned an entire new language and performed beautifully in that language. Unreal. Language created by David Peterson who created Dothraki for GoT #HaloWatchParty" (Retrieved on Mar 25, 2022) [archive]
- ^ Twitter, C. Buck (@tlacamazatl): "If you have #ParamountPlus, are a fan of #HaloSeries , and enjoy a good #conlang. You might be interested to know that I helped @Dedalvs develop the language for the Covenant." (Retrieved on Apr 6, 2022) [archive]