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Name: Tahltan Type: Language Alternate Name: Tahl-tan Spoken in: Canada Number of speakers: 35 (2002 W. Poser). Ethnic population: 750 (1977 SIL) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 60 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 35 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: tht Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian) Parent Subgroup: Central Cordillera; Tahltan Cluster; Tahltan-Kaska; Tahltan-Tagish-Kaska; Nahanni (tahl) Brief Description: "Tahltan is an Athabaskan language of northwestern British Columbia, closely related to Kaska (with which it is easily mutually intelligible) and to (nearly extinct) Tagish in the southern Yukon. It is principally the language of the remote community of Telegraph Creek, on the upper Stikine River, where there are five fluent speakers and perhaps 15 passive speakers out of a total population of 100. It is also spoken in the mixed Sekani-Tahltan community of Iskut, at Kinaskan Lake. No children are reported to speak or understand it." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 23

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered