The Wik Paach or Wikapatja were an
indigenous Australian people of the
Cape York Peninsula of northern
Queensland.
Language
The Wikapatja spoke
Wik Paach, which despite the name, is not one of the
Wik languages
The Wik languages are a subdivision of the Paman languages consisting of sixteen languages, all spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia. This grouping was first proposed by R. M. W. Dixon.
Each of the Kugu-Muminh dialects may ...
.
Country
The Wikapatja were a small tribe whose territory, estimated by
Tindale as not exceeding , was limited to the
mangroves around the
delta
Delta commonly refers to:
* Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet
* River delta, at a river mouth
* D (NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta")
* Delta Air Lines, US
* Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19
Delta may also re ...
of the
Archer River.
People
The tribe was deemed to be extinct by the time of Tindale's writing in 1974.
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland