Wik Paach Language

	Wik Paach Language Wik Paach (Wikapatja), also known as ''Abodja'', is an extinct Australian language of Queensland. It remains unclassified. The form of the name comes from 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 ..., where ''wik'' means "language", but Paach is not itself a member of that family.Peter Sutton, "Aboriginal Australia: social dialects", in Suzanne Romaine, ed., ''Language in Australia'', CUP, 1990:60. References Paman languages Extinct languages of Queensland Unclassified languages of Australia {{ia-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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	Wikapatja 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. Country The Wikapatja were a small tribe whose territory, estimated by Tindale as not exceeding , was limited to the mangroves A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. Mangroves are taxonomically diverse, as a result of convergent evolution in sever ... around the delta of the Archer River. People The tribe was deemed to be extinct by the time of Tindale's writing in 1974. Notes Citations Sources * * * * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of Queensland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Pama–Nyungan Languages The Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of Australian Aboriginal languages, containing 306 out of 400 Aboriginal languages in Australia. The name "Pama–Nyungan" is a merism: it derived from the two end-points of the range: the Pama languages of northeast Australia (where the word for "man" is ) and the Nyungan languages of southwest Australia (where the word for "man" is ). The other language families indigenous to the continent of Australia are occasionally referred to, by exclusion, as non-Pama–Nyungan languages, though this is not a taxonomic term. The Pama–Nyungan family accounts for most of the geographic spread, most of the Aboriginal population, and the greatest number of languages. Most of the Pama–Nyungan languages are spoken by small ethnic groups of hundreds of speakers or fewer. The vast majority of languages, either due to disease or elimination of their speakers, have become extinct, and almost all remaining ones are endangered in som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Paman Languages The Paman languages are an Australian language family spoken on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. First noted by Kenneth Hale, Paman is noteworthy for the profound phonological changes which have affected some of its descendants. Classification Various classifications of the Paman languages exist. The one outlined below is that of R. M. W. Dixon, though he does not accept that these branches are necessarily related to each other.See Dixon (2002), pp. xxx–xlii. Geographically, running down the east coast, they are: * North Cape York Northern Paman Umpila * Umbindhamu † Lamalamic * Umbuygamu † ** Lamu-Lamu * Yalgawarra † Yalanjic * Guugu Yimithirr Guugu Yalandji Barrow Point † (>> Wik?) * Mbariman-Gudhinma † * Djabugay † Down the west coast, they are: * North Cape York Northern Paman Wik * Southwestern Upper Southwest Paman Kuuk Thaayorre Kuuk Thaayorre (Thayore) is a Paman language spoken in the settlement Pormpuraaw on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Australian Language Australia legally has no official language. However, English is by far the most commonly spoken and has been entrenched as the ''de facto'' national language since European settlement. "English has no de jure status but it is so entrenched as the common language that it is de facto the official language as well as the national language." Australian English is a major variety of the English language with a distinctive pronunciation and lexicon, and differs slightly from other varieties of English in grammar and spelling."The Macquarie Dictionary", Fourth Edition. The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd, 2005. General Australian serves as the standard dialect. According to the 2021 census, English is the only language spoken in the home for 72% of the population. The ten next most common languages spoken at home are: Mandarin (2.7%), Arabic (1.4%), Vietnamese (1.3%), Cantonese (1.2%), Punjabi (0.9%), Greek (0.9%), Italian (0.9%), Tagalog (0.9%), Hindi (0.8%) and Spanish (0.7%). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	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 have the prefix ''Wik-'' instead of ''Kugu-''. Wik Paach is not a Wik language despite its name. The languages are as follows; often various dialects are considered separate languages: * Wik-Ngathan (incl. Wik-Ngatharr dialect) * Wik-Me'nh * Wik-Mungkan * Wik-Ompoma (Ambama) † * Kugu Nganhcara (incl. Gugu Uwanh dialect) † * Ayabadhu † * Pakanha † The Flinders Island language and Barrow Point language were apparently Wik. See also * Wik peoples * Wik Peoples v Queensland ''Wik Peoples v The State of Queensland''. (commonly known as the Wik decision) is a decision of the High Court of Australia delivered on 23 December 1996 on whether statutory leases extinguish native title rights. The court found that the stat ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Extinct Languages Of Queensland Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively. This difficulty leads to phenomena such as Lazarus taxa, where a species presumed extinct abruptly "reappears" (typically in the fossil record) after a period of apparent absence. More than 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth, amounting to over five billion species, are estimated to have died out. It is estimated that there are currently around 8.7 million species of eukaryote globally, and possibly many times more if microorganisms, like bacteria, are included. Notable extinct animal species include non-avian dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, dodos, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]