The Pentlatch , Pentl’ach , Puntlatch , Puntlatsh 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 after the death of the last fluent speaker Joe Nim Nim in 1940, but researchers from Qualicum First Nation declared it to be a living language in December 2023.
4-458: In 2017, Qualicum Elder Bill Recalma, a speaker of Pentlatch, began working to record and teach what he knew of the language. He and his son Jessie have been working together to help revive it. The Pentlatch celebrated a ceremony celebrating the language's reawakening due to their efforts. In 2023, the Pentlatch language was reclassified by Qualicum researchers as a living language and was added to
8-585: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This British Columbia -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Puntledge River The Puntledge River is a small river on Vancouver Island , British Columbia , Canada . It joins the Tsolum River to form the Courtenay River , which enters the Strait of Georgia at the city of Courtenay . The name
12-697: Is derived from that of the Pentlatch people . Their language, also called Pentlatch , was a Coast Salish language . The river was officially named by Robert Brown of the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition in 1854, after the people who lived along it, although Lieut. Mayne of the Royal Engineers had noted the name Puntluch River. 49°41′45″N 124°59′41″W / 49.69583°N 124.99472°W / 49.69583; -124.99472 This article about
16-762: The list of official First Nations' languages in British Columbia. 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. This article related to the Indigenous languages of the Americas
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