Wik Mungkan language
Wik-Mungkan | |
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Wik-Mungknh | |
Native to | Australia |
Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
Native speakers | 450 (2016 census)[1] |
Pama–Nyungan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
wim |
Glottolog |
wikm1247 [2] |
AIATSIS[3] |
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.[3]
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.[4]
A dictionary of Wik-Mungknh has been compiled by Christine Kilham.[5]
Phonology
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a |
Consonants
Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | Glottal | |||
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Labial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | ||
Stop | p | k | c (ch) | t̪ (th) | t | ʔ (') |
Nasal | m | ŋ (ng) | ɲ (ny) | n̪ (nh) | n | |
Lateral | l | |||||
Rhotic | r | |||||
Approximant | w | j | (ɹ) |
/ɹ/ does not appear frequently, only in some words. The same symbol for /r/ is used.[5]
External links
- Paradisec has an open access collection of Arthur Capell's materials that includes Wunumara
References
- ↑ ABS. "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 2017-10-29.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wik-Mungkan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Wik-Mungkan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Sutton, Peter (1995). Wik-Ngathan Dictionary.
- 1 2 Kilham, Christine (1986). Dictionary and sourcebook of the Wik-Mungkan language.
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