Pentlatch language

Pentlatch
Pənƛ’áč
Region Vancouver Island
Extinct 1940[1]
Salish
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ptw
Linguist list
 ptw
Glottolog pent1242[2]

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. Pentlatch became extinct in the 1940s.

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. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pentlatch". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Reserve/Settlement/Village Detail "Pentledge 2"
  4. ↑ BC Names entry "Pentledge 2 (Indian Reserve)"
  1. Pentlatch bibliography from the Yinka Dene Language Institute
  2. "Pentlatch" at ethnologue.com
  3. "Pentlatch" at native-languages.org


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