Tindale (1974) reports that there are eastern and western dialectal differences of Guwa but gives no further detail. Blake and Breen investigate dialectal variation and conclude that 'the evidence seems to suggest that Tindale was right' but caution that there is not enough information to be certain (in Breen 1990:118).
Breen (1990:163) comments that Yanda G9 is hard to classify, but seems to be closer to Guwa than to any other language. Further, Guwa seems to be close enough to be treated as a subgroup of the Pama-Maric group.
Headwaters of Diamantina north to Kynuna, and Hamilton Creek divide; west to Middleton Creek; east to Winton and Sesbania; south almost to Cork (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).
