Sharpe coined the name Yugambeh - Bundjalung as a cover term for a group of dialects from north-east New South Wales and south-east Queensland (2005) and produced a dictionary (on CDROM) of Yugambeh - Bundjalung in 2013.
The name Dinggabal (E16.1) was recorded by Wurm in his transcription of recorded material as 'Dinggabal data' (Crowley, 1978:154-5).
The Geytenbeeks' Gidhabal collaborators refer to Dinggabal; and Geytenbeeks collected some words of this dialect; the name derives from 'dingga for "that's right" ' (Crowley and Sharpe, 1996:32). The name Bonalbo language (E16.1) may also be relevant.
See also: Bundjalung E12; Birihn E72; Casino language E73; Ngarabal E92; Galibal E15; Geynyan D36; Gidhabal E14; Mananjahli E76; Minyangbal E18; Nerang Creek language E77; Nganduwal E78; Ngarahgwal E79; Nyangbal E75; Wahlubal E16.2; Wehlubal E80; Wiyabal E16; Wudjebal E96 and Yugambeh E17.
See Bundjalung E12 for items in the catalogue which may include information about this language variety.
Formerly the Language Thesaurus assigned two codes, E12 and E14 to Dinggabal, but these codes are also assigned to other names. In this database, the code (E16.1) is assigned to Dinggabal following Oates (1975:210).
On the Clarence between Tabulam and Woodenbong (Crowley 1978:154). Upper reaches of Clarence River in area between Woodenbong and Stanthorpe (Oates 1975:210).
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Speaker numbers were measured differently across the censuses and various other sources listed in AUSTLANG. You are encouraged to refer to the sources.
Speaker numbers for ‘NILS 2004’ and ‘2005 estimate’ come from 'Table F.3: Numbers of speakers of Australian Indigenous languages (various surveys)' in 'Appendix F NILS endangerment and absolute number results' in McConvell, Marmion and McNicol 2005, pages 198-230 (PDF, 2.5MB).
