Pentlatch language
Pentlatch | |
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Pənƛ’áč | |
Native to | Canada |
Region | Vancouver Island |
Extinct | 1940[1] |
Salish
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ptw |
ptw | |
Glottolog | pent1242 |
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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 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]
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 Indian Reserve, now allocated to the K'ómoks First Nation band government.[3][4]
References[]
- ^ Pentlatch at MultiTree on the Linguist List
- ^ Terry Glavin, "A lost world returns", Maclean's, November 11, 2020.
- ^ Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Reserve/Settlement/Village Detail "Pentledge 2" Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ BC Names entry "Pentledge 2 (Indian Reserve)"
External links[]
- Pentlatch bibliography from the Yinka Dene Language Institute
- "Pentlatch" at ethnologue.com
- "Pentlatch" at native-languages.org
Categories:
- Languages with Linglist code
- Extinct languages of North America
- Coast Salish languages
- Mid Vancouver Island
- Languages extinct in the 1940s
- 1940s disestablishments in North America
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs
- British Columbia stubs