Tahltan language
| Tahltan | |
|---|---|
| Tałtan ẕāke, dah dẕāhge, didene keh | |
| Native to | Canada |
| Region | Northern British Columbia |
| Ethnicity | 2,460 Tahltan people (2014, FPCC) |
Native speakers | 235 (2021) |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tht |
| Glottolog | tahl1239 |
| ELP | Tāłtān (Tahltan) |
Tahltan is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
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 235 of the 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 (Krauss and Golla 1981, Mithun 1999).