Breen recorded a language called Wadjigu spoken by Amy Miller from Rolleston, possibly born at Consuelo; he describes it as belonging to the Bidjara group, located in the same area Tindale places Karingbal E38, close to Bidjara E37 and GariGari country (2009:237).
Breen says that Wadjigu (E39) and Tindale's Wadja (E39) (1974:186) refer to the same language; he assigns the area Tindale identifies as Wadja to Mandalgu E65 (2009:234), which he tentatively proposes as a 'new' language (2009:234).
Breen classifies Wadja as a member of the Bidjari group of languages (2009:234).
Breen identifies Tindale's Karingbal area as Wadjigu (2009: 237).
Karingbal: Headwaters of Comet River (upper Mackenzie) from below Rolleston south to the Carnarvon Range; west to Consuelo Peak; on the Brown River; east to Expedition Range and Bedourie. It is a tribe quite separate from the Kanolu and Kangulu. Davidson's placings of this and neighboring tribes are based on Kelly's incorrect sketch map that shows Emerald 50 miles out of position with respect to Springsure (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).
