Wik-Mungkan language

Infobox Language
name= Wik-Mungkan
region=Queensland, Australia
speakers=400 (1990)
familycolor=Australian
fam1=Pama-Nyungan
fam2=Paman
fam3=Northern Paman
iso2=aus
iso3=wim

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. [Summer Institute of Linguistics' [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=wim Ethnologue report for Wik-Mungkan] ] .

English has borrowed at least one word from Wik-Mungkan, that for the taipan, a species of poisonous snake native to the region. [Sutton, Peter. 1995. Wik Ngathan dictionary] There is a dictionary of Wik Mungkan by Christine Kilham. [Kilham, Christine A. et al., compilers. 1986. Dictionary and source book of the Wik-Mungkan language. Darwin: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

References

External links

•The Summer Institute of Linguistics' [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=wim Ethnologue report for Wik Mungkan] .