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Tahltan

Tahltan (also Nahanni) refers to a Northern Athabaskan people that live in northern British Columbia around Telegraph Creek, Dease Lake, and Iskut.

Contents

1 Language

1.1 Sounds

1.1.1 Consonants
1.1.2 Vowels
1.1.3 Phonological processes

Language

Tahltan is a poorly documented Northern Athabaskan language. Some linguists consider Tahltan to be a language with 3 divergent but mutually intelligible dialects (Mithun 1999). The numbers below are according to Poser (2003):

Tahltan (approximately 35 speakers)
Kaska (approximately 400 speakers)
Tagish (approximately 2 speakers)

Other linguists consider these to be separate languages.

Sounds

Consonants

The 45 consonants of Tahltan:

		Bilabial	Interdental	Dental		Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Uvular	Glottal
		Bilabial	Interdental	central	lateral	Post-alveolar	Palatal	plain	labial	Uvular	Glottal
Stop	unaspirated			t				k	kʷ	q
	aspirated							kʰ	kʷʰ	qʰ
	ejective							k’	k’ʷ	q’	ʔ
Affricate	unaspirated		t^θ	ʦ	tɬ	ʧ
	aspirated		t^θʰ	ʦʰ	tɬʰ	ʧʰ
	ejective		t^θ’	ʦ’	tɬ’	ʧ’
Nasal	plain	m		n
Nasal	glottalized			n’
Fricative	voiceless		θ	s	ɬ	ʃ	ç	x	xʷ	χ	h
Fricative	voiced		ð	z	ɮ	ʒ		ɣ	ɣʷ	ʁ
Approximant							j		w

Vowels

Phonological processes

Vowel flattening.
Consonant harmony
Vowel nasalization
Vowel laxing

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