Pentlatch language

The Pentlatch or Puntlatch or Puntledge language is a Salishan language that was spoken on Canada's Vancouver Island in a small area between Comox and Nanaimo, British Columbia. The Pentlatch people formerly numbered at least 3,000 with at least 90 settlements in the area, but were decimated by smallpox and then by conflicts. The language became extinct in the 1940s after the death of the last fluent speaker in 1940.[2]

Pentlatch
Pənƛ’áč
Native toCanada
RegionVancouver Island
Extinct1940[1]
Salish
Language codes
ISO 639-3ptw
ptw
Glottologpent1242

Variants

The name of this people and their language survives on the modern map as that of the Puntledge River, the Comox Valley locality of Puntledge and the name of the Pentledge 2 Indian Reserve, now allocated to the K'ómoks First Nation band government.[3][4]

References
  1. Pentlatch at MultiTree on the Linguist List
  2. Terry Glavin, "A lost world returns", Maclean's, November 11, 2020.
  3. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Reserve/Settlement/Village Detail "Pentledge 2" Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
  4. BC Names entry "Pentledge 2 (Indian Reserve)"


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