Wik languages

Wik
Middle Paman
Ethnicity: Wik peoples
Geographic
distribution:		 Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Linguistic classification:

Pama–Nyungan

Subdivisions:
  • Wik-Ngathan
  • Wik-Me'nh
  • Wik-Mungknh
  • Kugu-Muminh
  • Ayabadhu
  • Pakanha
Glottolog: wika1239  (Wik proper)[1]
paka1251  (Pakanha)[2]
wikn1246  (Kugu-Muminh)[3]

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Wik languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan)

The Wik languages are a subdivision of the Paman languages consisting of sixteen languages, all spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia. This grouping was first proposed by R. M. W. Dixon.[4]

The languages are as follows; often various dialects are considered separate languages:

Note that each of the Kugu-Muminh dialects may have the prefix Wik- instead of Kugu-. Wik Paach is not a Wik language despite its name.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wik proper". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pakanha". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kugu-Muminh". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. ↑ Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development.


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