Wik-Ngathan language

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Wik-Ngathan
Wik-Iinjtjenj
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
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Native speakers
fewer than the 127 Wik-Ngathana and 86 Wik-Ngatharr reported in 1981 (2007)[1]
0 per the 2006 census[2]
Dialects
Wik-Ngathan
Wik-Ngatharr (Wik-Alken)
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

  1. Wik-Ngathan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 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)
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  4. Ethnologue
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