Wik Paach language

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

^ ^a ^b Y47 Wik Paach at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ Peter Sutton, "Aboriginal Australia: social dialects", in Suzanne Romaine, ed., Language in Australia, CUP, 1990:60.

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[AIATSIS-1] Y47 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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