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 Bundjalung has been used as a language name for a number of related dialects since the 1940s, sometimes with the phonemic spelling /Bandjalang/ (Crowley and Sharpe in Sharpe, 1996:17). It also refers to one of the varieties, termed Bundjalung proper, spoken around Coraki (cf. Crowley (1978:151) and Sharpe (2005)). Thus, Bundjalung is both a language name and a dialect name.
Wafer and Lissarrague report that Wuyehbal is another name for Bundjalung E12 (2008:355).
See also: Birihn E72; Casino language E73; Ngarabal E92; Dinggabal E16.1; Galibal E15; Geynyan D36; Gidhabal E14; Mananjahli E76; Minyangbal E18; Arakwal E13; Nerang Creek language E77; Nganduwal E78; Ngarahgwal E79; Nyangbal E75; Wahlubal E16.2; Wehlubal E80; Wiyabal E16; Wudjebal E96 and Yugambeh E17.
Coraki and Bungawalbin Creek (Crowley 1978).
... dialect the north coast of NSW from north of Grafton and the Clarence River in the coastal area to the Logan River in southeast Queensland, inland to Drake (east of Tenterfield), out to Warwick and Allora in Queensland, and along the upper Clarence River and its tributaries (ALRRC).
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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).
Crowley, Terry. 1978. The middle Clarence dialects of Bandjalang. Canberra: AIAS.
Sharpe, Margaret, Marjorie Oakes, Terry Crowley & Jill Fraser-Knowes. 1996. An introduction to the Yugambeh-Bundjalung language and its dialects. Armidale NSW : Armidale College of Advanced Education.
Sharpe, Margaret. 2005. Grammar and texts of the Yugambeh-Bundjalung dialect chain in Eastern Australia. Munich: Lincom.
Sharpe, Margaret. 1994. Bundjalung. In Macquarie Aboriginal words: a dictionary of words from Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, eds. N Thieberger, W McGregor, 1-22. North Ryde: Macquarie Library.
Sharpe, Margaret. 1995 Dictionary of Western Bundjalung: including Gidhabal and Tabulam Bundjalung. Armidale, NSW: Margaret Sharpe.
Sharpe, Margaret. 2000. Dictionary of Eastern Bundjalung including Minyanbal and Ngahnduwal , ms.
Sharpe, Margaret. 2002. Dictionary of Coastal Bundjalung: including Bandjalang, Wiyabal, Minyangbal and Ngahnduwal. Armidale, NSW: [The Author].
Sharpe, Margaret. 2013. All Yugambeh-Bundjalung dictionary. Armidale, NSW: [The Author] + CDROM.
