Tāłtān

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Tahltan Tāłtān.

Noun

Tāłtān sg or pl

  1. Alternative form of Tahltan (people)
    • 2023 April 25, Lauren Collins, “Science World to get $20M from B.C. for leaky dome repairs”, in Grand Forks Gazette[1]:
      Some of those “shovel-projects” include the Western Canada Mountain Bike Tourism Association’s provincewide project to improve visitor responsibility on mountain bike trails and collect data on visitor use to assist with trail maintenance; the City of Delta’s project Barns to Beaches Bike Route, supporting agri-tourism and encouraging active transportation; and the Tāłtān Central Government’s signage project, supporting the implementation of a signage masterplan that includes Tāłtān language, oral history, storytelling, and worldview.

Proper noun

Tāłtān

  1. Alternative form of Tahltan (language)
    • 2017, Kāshā Julie Anne Morris, K’asba’e T’oh: Sustaining the Intergenerational Transmission of Tāłtān[2], University of Victoria, page 6:
      However, in 1991 that would change when they both began speaking and teaching Tāłtān.

Tahltan

Proper noun

Tāłtān

  1. Tahltan