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 / -13.867; 141.517
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. 1 2 Wik Ngathan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wik-Ngathana". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Ethnologue
  5. Sutton, Peter (1995). Wik-Ngathan Dictionary.


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