Wik-Ngathan is a Paman language of the Pama-Nyungan family spoken on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia, within the Wik language group. It has declined sharply, from about 130 speakers in 1981 to only 3 native speakers recorded in the 2016 census, and UNESCO classifies it as definitely endangered. It has two dialects, Wik-Ngathan proper and Wik-Ngatharr, also called Wik-Alken, and is more distantly related to the other Wik languages of the peninsula.
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