involved balance development and environmental aspects. Talk of an Alaska-Canada railroad traversing Tahltan lands recurs every so often with feasibility studies being done. Language Tahltan is a poorly documented Northern Athabaskan language. Some linguists consider Tahltan to be a language with three divergent but mutually intelligible dialects.<ref>Marianne Mithun. The Languages of Native North America'''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.</ref> Other linguists consider these to be separate languages. The number of speakers are below. Kaska: approximately 400 speakers (Poser 2003) Tahltan: approximately 35 speakers (Poser 2003) Tagish: no fluent speakers as of 2008 See also Tahltan, British Columbia Tahltan Bear Dog Raven Tales#Tahltan Notes and references Notes References Hodge, Frederick Webb, Compiler. The Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico''. Bureau of American Ethnology, Government Printing Office, 1906. As cited in Access Genealogy: Indian Tribal Records. Retrieved 4 December 2008. External links Tahltan Central Council Map of Northwest Coast First Nations Photos of the Tahltan Stikine Country Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest First Nations in British Columbia