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The Pentlatch or Pentl’ach 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. The language became extinct in the 1940s after the death of the last fluent speaker in 1940.[2]

Pentlatch
Pənƛ’áč
Native to	Canada
Region	Vancouver Island
Extinct	1940[1]
Language family	Salish Coast Salish Central Pentlatch
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ptw
Linguist List	ptw
Glottolog	pent1242

There is one known semi-speaker (if not full speaker, source unclear), Quallicum Chief Bill Recalma. He and his son Jessie have been working together to help revive it. The Pentlatch celebrated a ceremony celebrating the language's reawakening du to their efforts.[3]

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.[4][5]

References

External links

• Pentlatch bibliography from the Yinka Dene Language Institute
• "Pentlatch" at ethnologue.com
• "Pentlatch" at native-languages.org

На других языках

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- [en] Pentlatch language

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[fr] Pentlatch

Le pentlatch est une langue salish de la côte centrale qui était parlée entre Comox et Nanaimo sur l’île de Vancouver, dans la province canadienne de Colombie-Britannique. Les Pentlatchs, qui parlaient cette langue, ont été décimés par la variole et différents conflits. La langue s’est éteinte en 1940 avec la mort du chef Joe Nimnim, son dernier locuteur[1],[2].

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