Clan Chattan (Scottish Gaelic: Na Catanaich or Clann Chatain) is a Highland Scottish clan. The clan is unique in highland clan history in that it was acknowledged to be a community or confederation, of twelve separate Scottish clans, who each had their own clan chief recognized under Scottish law, but who were united under and bound to a superior chief of the confederation for mutual solidarity, sustenance and protection in the Middle Ages and early modern period in the Scottish Highlands. "Chattan" is pronounced "Hattan," maybe with a slight "roughness" to the "h", as found in the word loch, as if you were clearing your throat! Place the back of your tongue against the roof of your mouth and force a bit of air out in the form of a "kh". The air should come from the space between your tongue and your throat, not deeply from your lungs. That is preferable to kattan, shattan or chatton, but if you wish to pronounce it as it is pronounced by natives of Badenoch, Strathdearn and Strathnairn you must repeat the "kh" sound immediately preceeding the double "t". The result will be khaakhtun. Clans: Davidson, Farquharson, MacBean, MacGillivray, MacIntyre of Badenoch, Mackintosh, MacLean of Dochgarroch (the Macleans of the North), MacPhail, Macpherson, Macqueen, MacThomas, Shaw of Tordarroch