ISO 639-3 ptw Glottolog pent1242 | Extinct 1940 Linguist list ptw | |
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Language family SalishCoast SalishCentralPentlatch | ||
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.
References
Pentlatch language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA