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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,, and Carl Buck.

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.

Vocabulary
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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