Tla-O-Qui-Aht
/ˌtɬaʔuːˈkiːʔat/noun
A Nuu-chah-nulth Indigenous nation whose traditional territory is centered around Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island, Canada.
Did you know?The Tla-o-qui-aht are one of the Nuu-chah-nulth nations, whose traditional territories and cultural knowledge are closely tied to the marine landscape of Vancouver Island’s west coast.
Etymological Timeline
Pre-contact period
Nuu-chah-nulth
tla-o-qui-aht
“An Indigenous nation-name associated with the people and territory of Clayoquot Sound; traditional oral transmission predates written records.”
18th–19th centuries
Nuu-chah-nulth
Tla-o-qui-aht
“The name used within Nuu-chah-nulth cultural and territorial contexts; precise morpheme-by-morpheme analysis is not consistently represented in early colonial records.”
18th–19th centuries
English
Clayoquot / Tla-o-qui-aht
“Colonial and English-language records used varying spellings for the region and its Indigenous inhabitants.”
20th century
English
Tla-o-qui-aht
“The standardized Latin-alphabet form became widely used in Canadian legal, governmental, and ethnographic contexts.”
Modern English
English
Tla-o-qui-aht
“The contemporary name of a Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation, also written in contexts discussing its government, culture, territory, and language revitalization.”
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