See and use Malgana A65.
McKelson (nd) describes two dialects of Malgana A65: 'riverside Malgana' in the north-east, adjacent to the Fitzroy River, and 'bush Mangala', south-east of La Grange Mission. He does not provide data or descriptions of these dialects, though he makes notes in 1989 (Series 5, Item 2) that may correspond to dialectal differences. Weber (2009:3) reports that Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre refers to these dialects according to the word for closing a discussion or event: 'Ngulatu/Ngulartu' (bush) and 'Kakutu/Kakurtu' (riverside) A122.
Weber notes that, while the differences between these dialects have not been documented, the Mangarla dialect described in Hudson (1973) differs phonologically from that described in McKelson (1989, Series 5, Item 4).
... spoken southeast of [La Grange] mission (McKelson, MS 2687)
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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).
