Concept information
Preferred term
Tahltan
Definition
- Tahltan, Tāłtān, also called Tałtan ẕāke (‘Tahltan people language’), dah dẕāhge (‘our language’) or didene keh (‘this people's way’) is a poorly documented and endangered Northern Athabaskan language spoken by Tahltan people (also 'Nahanni') who live in northern British Columbia around Telegraph Creek, Dease Lake, and Iskut. Tahltan is a critically endangered language. Several linguists classify Tahltan as a dialect of the same language as Tagish and Kaska. Tahltan belongs to the Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit language family. Edward Sapir originally constructed the term Na-Dene to refer to a combined family of Athabaskan, Tlingit, and Haida (the existence of the Eyak language was not known to him at the time). However, Haida is now generally considered a language isolate.
Entry terms
- Tāłtān
Identifier
- THT
Notation
- tht
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/THT
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