Wafer and Lissarrague (2008:303) mention an unpublished manuscript on Malynagapa grammar by Austin (1978) (this material is not incorporated in the documentation score).
Tindale (1974) says that in his earlier work he included Ngurunta L65 within Maljangapa (L8), but in his 1974 work, he makes a distinction between the two. He says that the survivors of Ngurunta resided with Maljanjapa in post-European times. Further, Tindale says that both Wanjiwalku D21 people and Maljangapa people speak the same language, Wanjiwalku.
However Hercus and Austin (2004) say that Malyangapa had their own language.
Wadigali L12 may be a dialect of Malyangapa reported by Capell (1963) and Oates (1975) both based on Wurm who uses the word 'probably' in describign this relationship.
Beckett, Hercus and Martin (2008) say Wadikali L12 is part of the 'closely-knit subgroup of Yarli languages' but they do not mention dialect status.
The Mobile Language Team web site locates Wadigali to the 'north of the closely related language / dialect Malyangapa'.
Yardliyawara L7 is another potential dialect of Malyangapa, though Hercus and Austin (2004) only say that Yardliyawara and Malyangapa are 'close'.
Maljangapa: Milparinka, N.S.W., and head of Yancannie Creek; east to beyond Mount Arrowsmith, south to about Mootwin-gee and Sturt Meadow (Tindale 1974).
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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).
