Wik-Ngatharr dialect

Wik-Ngatharr
Wik-Alken
Native to	Australia
Region	Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Native speakers	fewer than the 86 reported in 1981 (2007)[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Paman North Cape York Wik Wik-Ngathan Wik-Ngatharr
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wik
Glottolog	wika1238[2]
AIATSIS[3]	Y51

Wik-Ngatharr, or Wik-Alken (Wik-Elken), is a Paman language spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Wik-Ngatharr people. It is a co-dialect with Wik-Ngathan, and more distantly related to the other Wik languages. In 1981 there were 86 speakers.^[4]

References

1. Wik-Ngatharr at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wikalkan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Wik-Ngatharr at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
4. Ethnologue