Wik-Mungkan people

The Wik-Mungkan people were the largest branch of the Wik people, an Indigenous Australian group of tribes, speaking several different languages, who traditionally ranged over an extensive area of the western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland.

Wik Mungkan is a form of Paman which is a subset of the broader Pama-Nyungan language family, and closely related to Kugu Nganhcara.Wik means 'speech' It is spoken around Aurunkun and the Edward River. Uniquely among Wik language speakers, where speech styles are defined in terms of some distinctive lexical feature, those whose mother tongue is Wik Mungkan use 'eating' as a classifier for their tongue (Wik Mungkan literally means 'language-eat'), a definition borrowed from their inland clans, whose neighbouring east coast tribes employ forms of the verb 'eat' to distinguish their dialect differences.

Wik-Mungkan territory covered a strip of land from 30 to 50 miles wide running parallel to the Gulf of Carpentaria, but separated from it by coastal tribes such as the Wik-Natera or Wik-Kalkan who lived south of the Archer River. Their land, extending over 3,000 square miles, was watered by five major watercourses, the Watson, Archer, Kendall, Holroyd and Edward rivers flowing down to the west of the Great Dividing Range to the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. A variety of distinct habitats exist, from flat woodlands to mangrove to rocky ridged spurs and poor melon hole land, the last separating them from the tribes to their east.

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