Editing Tlingit language (section)

=== Use and revitalization efforts ===
Golla (2007) reported a decreasing population of 500 speakers in Alaska. The [[First Peoples' Cultural Council]] (2014) reported 2 speakers in Canada out of an ethnic population of 400.<!--sourced from ethnologue-->

As of 2013, Tlingit courses are available at the [[University of Alaska Southeast]].<ref name = "ktoo201310">{{Cite episode
| publisher = KTOO, [[Juneau, Alaska]]
| credits = Lisa Phu (Director)
| title = UAS and Yukon College partnership advances Native language efforts
| access-date = 2013-10-24
| date = 2013-10-22
| minutes = 3:44
| url = http://www.ktoo.org/2013/10/22/uas-and-yukon-college-partnership-advances-native-language-efforts/
}}</ref> In April 2014, Alaska HB 216 recognized Tlingit as an official language of Alaska, lending support to [[language revitalization]].<ref>{{Cite news
| last = Twitchell
| first = Lance A
| title = HB 216 and the emotions of language revitalization
| work = Alaska Dispatch
| access-date = 2014-05-05
| date = 2014-04-23
| url = http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140423/alaskas-official-indigenous-languages-and-emotions-revitalization
| archive-date = 2014-04-26
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140426125850/http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140423/alaskas-official-indigenous-languages-and-emotions-revitalization
| url-status = dead
}}</ref>