Wik Mungkan language
| Wik-Mungkan | |
|---|---|
| Wik-Mungknh | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
Native speakers | 1,050 (2006 census)[1] |
|
Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
wim |
| Glottolog |
wikm1247[2] |
| AIATSIS[1] |
Y57 |
Wik-Mungkan, or Wik-Mungknh, is a Paman language spoken on the northern part of Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Wik-Mungkan people.
Dixon thought there was a Wik-Iiyanh dialect, but it turned out to be the same as the Wik-Iiyanh dialect of Kugu Nganhcara.[1]
The English language has borrowed at least one word from Wik-Mungknh, that for the taipan, a species of venomous snake native to the region.[3]
A dictionary of Wik-Mungknh has been compiled by Christine Kilham.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 Wik-Mungkan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wik-Mungkan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Sutton, Peter (1995). Wik-Ngathan Dictionary.
- ↑ Kilham, Christine (1986). Dictionary and sourcebook of the Wik-Mungkan language.
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