Noah Elkins
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Alright, I've created a small new website devoted to the language. I am updating it regularly, and in a few weeks' time, it will be completed. This way, anyone can see the finished product (even 343i)! Link: http://noahelkins.conlang.org/covenantlanguage.html Thanks for all the support!
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If there is a general public interest in it, then yes. I have already begun making a working vocabulary list, and I can expand more on grammar with a more in-depth outline. If this picks up, I'll make this thing fifty pages if I have to! http://noahelkins.conlang.org/covenantlanguage.html
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I don't think it's about Elites' difficulty when speaking a human language. When the Elite in the Spartan Ops episode says 'progress', he doesn't seem to be trying hard to get it out, rather just saying it threateningly to scare or intimidate the scientist. While I crafted the language from what I think a Sangheili would say, this could be easily applicable to a Brute mouth just the same. I'm not pinning this on any one specific race, although I modeled it after one.
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I considered that. However, due to the sounds the Sangheili made during Halo CE, Halo 2, Reach, and now Halo 4, they haven't shown any signs of having those sounds in their language. I can assume by this that they don't exist, like the Yaut'ja.
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Sangheili probably. I figure that, since they are probably the most abundant and powerful (next to the San 'Shyuum) race in the Covenant, so their language is probably understood by all of the races just because of the fact that they are all together in the same space for so long. I modeled the language off of the Sangheili mouth, with a lot of tongue-and-lip sounds, so things that are around the front of the mouth, due to their split mandible.
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Like the Na'vi aliens in Avatar, the Covenant in the Halo series deserve a constructed language of their own. My name is Noah Elkins, and I am a huge Halo fan who believes that the sounds that come out of Sangheilis' mouths should not be just made up, but have a syntax, a grammar, semantics, and more, to further enrich the Halo experience, and to add another layer of depth to the Halo universe. I am doing this for the fans like me and for 343 to see. Maybe hopefully we can get this into something! Attached are screenshots from the brief 18-paged grammar and pronunciation outline, where I teach the basics of the language I've created. I hope everyone enjoys, and maybe someday, the Elites and Grunts in an actual piece of canonical Halo will incorporate it, if it's liked.
