Wik-Mungkan
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Wik-Mungkan is an Aboriginal Australian language traditionally spoken by the Wik peoples of western Cape York Peninsula in Queensland.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian Aboriginal language
ⓘ
Pama–Nyungan language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Wik peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Wik Mungkan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wik-Mungkan (Wik-Mungkan) NERFINISHED ⓘ Wik-Mungkan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Wik-Mungkn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder |
SOV-dominant
ⓘ
flexible word order ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
central to Wik identity
ⓘ
used in songs and ceremonies ⓘ used in traditional stories ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
ceremonial life
ⓘ
kinship terminology ⓘ traditional culture ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
case marking on nouns
ⓘ
verb inflection for aspect ⓘ verb inflection for mood ⓘ verb inflection for tense ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea | Cape York Peninsula linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | suffixing morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasStatus | community language in some Wik communities ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| isIndigenousLanguageOf | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | wim ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
descriptive grammars
ⓘ
linguistic fieldwork studies ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Paman ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Pama–Nyungan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageGroup | Wik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Cape York Peninsula
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Queensland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Australia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cape York Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Queensland NERFINISHED ⓘ western Cape York Peninsula ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Wik languages ⓘ |
| usedBy | Wik-Mungkan people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | oral communication ⓘ |
| usedIn | western Cape York Peninsula communities ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.