Wik-Mungkan (Language)
Wik-Mungkan (alternatively, Wik-Mungknh) is a Paman language spoken by around one thousand Wik-Mungkan people and related groups, including the Wikalkan, Wik-Ngathana, and Wikngenchera, often grouped under the umbrella term Wik people. As the dominant language within the Wik language group of formerly distinct dialects and the lingua franca for many people living at Aurukun, Wik-Mungkan is healthier than most of its neighbours and is quickly absorbing them.
Linguistic and translation work in and around Aurukun by linguists from the Summer Institute of Linguistics since the early 1960s has produced a dictionary file, eventually published online as the Wik Mungkan-English Interactive Dictionary.
The English language has borrowed at least one word from Wik-Mungkan, that for the taipan, a species of venomous snake native to the region.
