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Tahltan
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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:


Vowels



Phonological processes





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BIBLIOGRAPHY


  • Cook, Eung-Do. (1972). Stress and related rules in Tahltan. ''International Journal of American Linguistics'', ''38'', 231-233.

  • Gafos, Adamantios. (1999). ''The articulatory basis of locality in phonology''. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-8153-3286-6. (Revised version of the author's Doctoral dissertation, John Hopkins University).

  • Hardwick, Margaret F. (1984). Tahltan phonology and morphology. (Unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Toronto, Ontario).

  • Mithun, Marianne. (1999). ''The languages of Native North America''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.

  • Nater, Hank. (1989). Some comments on the phonology of Tahltan. ''International Journal of American Linguistics'', ''55'', 25-42.

  • Poser, William J. (2003). The status of documentation for British Columbia native languages. Yinka Dene Language Institute Technical Report (No. 2). Vanderhoof, British Columbia: Yinka Dene Language Institute.

  • Shaw, Patricia. (1991). Consonant harmony systems: The special status of coronal harmony. In C. Paradis & J.-F. Prunet (Eds.), ''Phonetics and phonology 2, the special status of coronals: Internal and external evidence'' (pp. 125-155). London: Academic Press.