Tāłtān

A form of Tahltan — A First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group who live in northern British Columbia around Telegraph Creek, Dease Lake, and Iskut. They constitute the fourth division of the Nahane (People of the West).

OriginTahltan Tāłtān →
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Meanings

nounTāłtān sg or pl
  1. alternativepluralsingularAlternative form of Tahltan (people)
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    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.

    2023 April 25, Lauren Collins, “Science World to get $20M from B.C. for leaky dome repairs”, in Grand Forks Gazette
proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Tahltan (language)

    However, in 1991 that would change when they both began speaking and teaching Tāłtān.

    2017, Kāshā Julie Anne Morris, K’asba’e T’oh: Sustaining the Intergenerational Transmission of Tāłtān, University of Victoria, page 6

Origin

  1. TahltanTāłtān
  2. EnglishTāłtān

Unadapted borrowing from Tahltan Tāłtān.

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APA

Tāłtān. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/T%C4%81%C5%82t%C4%81n

MLA

“Tāłtān.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/T%C4%81%C5%82t%C4%81n. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tāłtān,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/T%C4%81%C5%82t%C4%81n.

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