Wik-Mungkan language

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Wik-Mungkan is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Wik-Mungkan people of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland and is one of the better-documented members of the Pama–Nyungan family.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Pama–Nyungan language
natural language
belongsTo Wik language group
country Australia
ethnicity Wik-Mungkan people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Wik-Mungkan NERFINISHED
Wik-Mungkn NERFINISHED
hasCaseMarking ergative–absolutive alignment
hasDialects Wik-Iiyanh NERFINISHED
Wik-Iiyanh dialect NERFINISHED
Wik-Iyanh NERFINISHED
Wik-Iyanh dialect NERFINISHED
Wik-Mungkan dialects
hasGlottocode wikm1235
hasLexicalSimilarityWith other Wik languages
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSpeakerCommunity Aurukun NERFINISHED
western Cape York Peninsula communities
hasWordOrder flexible word order
isBetterDocumentedMemberOf Pama–Nyungan family NERFINISHED
isEndangered true
isIndigenousLanguageOf Australia NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code wim
isSubjectOf descriptive grammars
linguistic fieldwork
isTaughtIn some local schools in Cape York Peninsula
isUsedIn community life in Aurukun region
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan NERFINISHED
region Cape York Peninsula NERFINISHED
spokenBy Wik-Mungkan people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Australia NERFINISHED
Cape York Peninsula NERFINISHED
Queensland NERFINISHED
state Queensland
status vulnerable
subfamily Paman
subgroup Wik languages NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Pama–Nyungan languages includesLanguage Wik-Mungkan language