Kugu-Muminh (Wik-Muminh), also known as Kugu- or Wik-Nganhcara (Wikngenchera), is a Paman language spoken on the

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, by several of the

Wik peoples The Wik peoples are an Indigenous Australian group of people from an extensive zone on western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, speaking several different languages. They are from the coastal flood plains bounding the Gulf of Carpentar ...

. There are multiple dialects, only two of which are still spoken: Kugu-Muminh itself, and Kugu-Uwanh.

Phonology

Kugu Nganhcara consonant inventorySmith, Ian, and Steve Johnson. “Kugu Nganhcara.” In ''Handbook of Australian Languages'', edited by R. M. W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake, 5:357–507. Melbourne, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Kugu Nganhcara vowel inventory

References

Wik languages Endangered indigenous Australian languages in Queensland Severely endangered languages {{ia-lang-stub