The Pentlatch, Pentl’ach, Puntlatch, Puntlatsh or Puntledge language is a Salishan language that is spoken on Canada's Vancouver Island in a small area between Comox and Nanaimo, British Columbia.

The language became extinct after the death of the last fluent speaker Joe Nim Nim in 1940,[2] but researchers from Qualicum First Nation declared it to be a living language in December 2023.

[3] In 2017, Qualicum Elder Bill Recalma, a speaker of Pentlatch, began working to record and teach what he knew of the language.

[3] 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.

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