Wik Paach language

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Wik Paach
Region Queensland
Extinct by 1973[1]
Pama–Nyungan
  • (unclassified, presumably Paman)
    • Wik Paach
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog None
AIATSIS[1] Y47

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, where wik means "language", but Paach is not itself a member of that family.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Wik Paach at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Peter Sutton, "Aboriginal Australia: social dialects", in Suzanne Romaine, ed., Language in Australia, CUP, 1990:60.


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