Wik Paach (Wikapatja), also known as ''Abodja'', is an extinct
Australian language of
Queensland
)
, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
. 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.
[Peter Sutton, "Aboriginal Australia: social dialects", in Suzanne Romaine, ed., ''Language in Australia'', CUP, 1990:60.]
References
Paman languages
Extinct languages of Queensland
Unclassified languages of Australia
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