Wik-Ngathan language
| Wik-Ngathan | |
|---|---|
| Wik-Iinjtjenj | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
| Coordinates | 13°52′S 141°31′E / 13.867°S 141.517°E |
Native speakers |
fewer than the 127 Wik-Ngathana and 86 Wik-Ngatharr reported in 1981 (2007)[1] 0 per the 2006 census[2] |
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Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Dialects |
Wik-Ngathan
Wik-Ngatharr (Wik-Alken)
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
wig (Wik-Ngathan proper) |
| Glottolog |
wikn1245 (Wik-Ngathana)[3] |
| AIATSIS[2] |
Y54 Wik Ngathan, Y51 Wik Ngatharr |
Wik-Ngathan, or Wik-Iinjtjenj (Wik-Iinychanya), is a Paman language spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Wik-Ngathan people. It is closely related to the other Wik-Ngathan language, Wik-Ngatharr and more distantly to the Wik languages. In 1981 there were 130 speakers.[4]
A dictionary of Wik-Ngathan has been compiled by Peter Sutton.[5]
References
- ↑ Wik-Ngathan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wik Ngathan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wik-Ngathana". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ Sutton, Peter (1995). Wik-Ngathan Dictionary.