Wik-Mungkan language
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Wik-Mungkan | ||
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Spoken in: | Queensland, Australia | |
Total speakers: | 400 (1990) | |
Language family: | Pama-Nyungan Paman Northern Paman Wik-Mungkan |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | aus | |
ISO 639-3: | wim | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
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
- ^ Summer Institute of Linguistics' Ethnologue report for Wik-Mungkan
- ^ Sutton, Peter. 1995. Wik Ngathan dictionary
- ^ 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.