The Kugu Nganhcara , also Wikngenchera, Wik-Ngandjara (Ngandjara) are an Australian group of peoples living in the middle western part of the Cape York Peninsula , Queensland in Australia . Today they are primarily concentrated at Aurukan and the Edward river settlement.
4-489: Kugu Nganhcara is a Wik-language complex consisting of six varieties or patrilects, Kugu Uwanh, Kugu Ugbanh, Kugu Yi'anh, Kugu Mi'inh, Kugu Miminh, and Wik Iyanh, where 'kugu' is a classifier for speech, and the following word the infinitive of the respective verbs for 'go'. These closely related languages are called patrilects by Steve Johnson since the respective groups belong to a society composed of patrilineal clans joined by exogamous relationships. The northern bounds of
8-691: Is a Paman language spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland , Australia , by several of the Wik peoples . There are multiple dialects, only two of which are still spoken: Kugu-Muminh itself, and Kugu-Uwanh. Smith, Ian and Johnson, Steve, 1986. Sociolinguistic patterns in an unstratified society: The patrilects of Kugu Nganhcara . Journal of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association 8:29–43. This Australian Aboriginal languages -related article
12-700: The Kugu Nganhcara are around the Kendall River, and their southern limits are around Moonkan Creek, beyond which lie their southern neighbours the Thaayorre . The Kugu-Nganychara embrace the following groups: Norman Tindale used this term to refer to a Kugu group he identified as that whose clan estates covered about 300 square miles (780 km) in the area between the mouths of the Holroyd River , which would appear to be coterminous with
16-569: The area assigned to the Kugu Ugbanh. Peter Sutton remarks that this term does not refer to a single dialect, but covers all the clans forming part of a dialect chain between the Kendall and Holroyd Rivers, and that the local name for the cluster is local term is Kugu-Nganycharra (known at Cape Keerweer as Wik-Ngenycharra. Kugu Nganhcara language Kugu-Muminh (Wik-Muminh), also known as Kugu- or Wik-Nganhcara (Wikngenchera),
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