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Kugu-Muminh
Wik-Muminh
Native to	Australia
Region	Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity	Kugu Nganhcara, Wik Iyanh
Native speakers	30 (2005)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Paman North Cape York Wik Kugu-Muminh
Dialects	Muminh Uwanh Mu'inh Ugbanh Yi'anh Iiyanh
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: xmh – Kuku-Muminh uwa – Kuku-Uwanh xmq – Kuku-Mangk? (unattested) xmp – Kuku-Mu’inh ugb – Kuku-Ugbanh wua – Kugu-Nganhcara wij – Wik-Iiyanh
Glottolog	kuku1287  Kuku wikn1246  Wikngenchera wiki1239  Wik-Iiyanh
AIATSIS	Y59
ELP	Kugu-Nganhcara
Wikngenchera is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Coordinates: 14°4′S 141°43′E / 14.067°S 141.717°E / -14.067; 141.717

Kugu-Muminh (Wik-Muminh), also known as Kugu- or Wik-Nganhcara (Wikngenchera), 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.

Phonology

References

1. ^ Y59 Kugu-Muminh at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
2. ^ Smith, Ian, and Steve Johnson. “Kugu Nganhcara.” In Handbook of Australian Languages, edited by R. M. W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake, 5:357–507. Melbourne, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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.

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