Capell (1963) and Oates (1975) list Wadigali as a dialect of Maljangaba L8, based on Wurm, who uses the word 'probably'. Beckett, Hercus and Martin (2008) say Wadikali (L12) is part of the 'closely-knit subgroup of Yarli languages' but they do not mention dialect status. Hercus and Austin define it as a member of the Yarli subgroup, along with Malyangapa L8 and Yardliyawara L7 (2004: 207-8).
The Mobile Language Team web site locates Wadigali to the 'north of the closely related language / dialect Malyangapa'.
Oates and Oates (1970) note the existence of an unpublished 180-word vocabulary taken by Tindale at Diamantina in 1934.
Hercus, Luise, and Peter Austin. 2004. The Yarli languages. In Australian languages: classification and the comparative method, eds Claire Bowern and Harold Koch, 207-222. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Yandama and Callabonna creeks; east to Milpa-rinka and Naryilco; at Lake Pinaroo, Tilcha, and Yandama (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).
