Very little is known about this language. It is reported in the Needs Survey 1996 as a language associated with the Kulumburu region, (northern-most tip of Western Australia). Clendon includes a personal communication from Margaret Sefton who says 'Other Wulambalic languages lie to the north-east of Wunambal, and include Gamberre, Wilawila, Miwa, a speech variety called both Gunin or Kuniyin and Kwini (McGregor 1993) and Dayiba (2014: 5).
Australia. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission 1996. Needs survey of Community languages.
Clendon, Mark. 2014. Worrorra : a language of the north-west Kimberley coast. Adelaide : University of Adelaide Press, 2014.
Kulumburu region, northern Western Australia.
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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).
