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Wik Mungkan language

Wik-Mungkan
Wik-Mungknh
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Native speakers
1,050 (2006 census)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog wikm1247
AIATSIS 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.

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.

A dictionary of Wik-Mungknh has been compiled by Christine Kilham.



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