According to the WA Handbook, this is a southern dialect of Inggarda W18. Dench (1998) distinguishes a southern dialect of Yingkarta from a northern dialect, but says no distinct names for Yingkarta dialects were recorded.
Austin (1988) also says there are two varieties of Yingkarta, a northern and a southern. He mentions two Yingkarta group names, Manthi W42 and Thirrily (W46), the locations of which appear to correspond to a north - south division, though he does not say that these group names are also the names of the dialects. Further, in his 1992 dictionary, Austin refers to the two dialects as Northern Yinggarda W42 and Southern Yinggarda (W46). The language name with code W46 was formerly Thirrily. Documentation on Yinggarda W19 may be relevant.
Eastern coast of Shark Bay and valley of the Wooramel River from the coast north of Yaringa, inland to the headwaters, north only to Pimbie, Carey Downs, and the southern vicinity of Towrana (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).
