Wik Mungkan language

Wik-Mungkan
Wik-Mungknh
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Native speakers
1,050 (2006 census)[1]
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. 1 2 3 Wik-Mungkan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. 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.
  3. Sutton, Peter (1995). Wik-Ngathan Dictionary.
  4. Kilham, Christine (1986). Dictionary and sourcebook of the Wik-Mungkan language.


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