Manangkarri is a non-Pama Nyungan language in the Iwaijan family.
Manangkarri is the language originally spoken on the two Goulburn Islands, possibly in the main on North Goulburn Island (Weyirra); Manangkarri and Mawng N64 are probably in a dialectal relationship (Singer (2006 p.c.).
Berndt and Berndt (1970) report Naragani as the language of the North Goulburn Island; Dixon (2002) treats Mananggari (N183) and Naragani as referring to the same language.
... the two Goulburn islands, possibly mainly on North Goulburn Island (Weyirra) (Singer 2006. p.c.).
The general associations were to North Goulbourn Island and the coast from west of Angularli Creek and including Gningarg Point area, and inland about 10kms (Harvey AILEC 0802).
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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).
