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Despite having [[Covenant languages|their own native languages]], the races of the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] appear to use the [[Sangheili]] as a lingua franca for interspecies interaction. However, some races, such as the [[Huragok]] and [[Yanme'e]], are incapble of speaking another languages. To better interact with the Yanme'e, [[signal unit]]s contain translation software which translate another language into the Yanme'e language.<ref>'''[[Contact Harvest]]''', ''Page 311''</ref> While Huragok usually communicate with other races by a sign language,<ref> '''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''Page 53''</ref> Covenant ships also possess extensive lexicons which can give Huragok orders.<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''Pages 98-99''</ref>

Early into the war with the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]], the [[United Nations Space Command]] developed software to help translate the languages the alien races of the Covenant spoke, such as the [[TSV-442]], which assisted in early interrogations of Covenant prisoners.<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''2010 Adjunct''</ref> However, while the UNSC was able to make a literal translation for Covenant words, the true meaning behind them could often be extremely disjointed. This was solved when the [[Artificial intelligence|A.I.]] [[Cortana]] managed to access a Covenant lexicon aboard the ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'', making a more accurate English-Covenant lexicon.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''Chapter 21''</ref> It would seem that it was around this time that the Sangheili language was desiphered, as translation software in the weeks preceeding and succeeding the events of [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]] was heavily updated.