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. Pentlatch became extinct in the 1940s.

Pentlatch
Pənƛ’áč
Native toCanada
RegionVancouver Island
Extinct1940[1]
Salish
Language codes
ISO 639-3ptw
ptw
Glottologpent1242[2]

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]

gollark: Well, you could submit it to them, some automatic systems might treat it that way.
gollark: potatOS v7.0
gollark: You're not doomed because potatOS is amazing and good.
gollark: bad
gollark: Isn't that a difficult unsolved mathematical problem?

References
  1. Pentlatch at MultiTree on the Linguist List
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Pentlatch". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  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)"
  1. Pentlatch bibliography from the Yinka Dene Language Institute
  2. "Pentlatch" at ethnologue.com
  3. "Pentlatch" at native-languages.org


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