Wik Mungkan

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Wik Mungkan is an aboriginal language of northern Cape York, Queensland, Australia. Recent surveys indicate that there are 400 native speakers of Wik Mungkan, and 600 members of other aboriginal groups who speak it as a second language. It is most closely related to other Wik languages.[1].

English has borrowed at least one word from Wik Mungkan, that for the taipan, a species of poisonous snake native to the region.[2]

There is a dictionary of Wik Mungkan by Christine Kilham.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Summer Institute of Linguistics' Ethnologue report for Wik Mungkan
  2. ^ Sutton, Peter. 1995. Wik Ngathan dictionary
  3. ^ Kilham, Christine A. et al., compilers. 1986. Dictionary and source book of the Wik-Mungkan language. Darwin: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[edit] External links

•The Summer Institute of Linguistics' Ethnologue report for Wik Mungkan.

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