Harvey (1992) treats Ngomburr (N40.1) as a dialect of Umbukarla N43; in Harvey (2008) it is listed as a separate language. Harvey (1992:12 and 2002:14) reports that, according to one informant, Magabalal was the Gundjeihmi N71 name for Umbugarla and Ngombur people and that the Kunwinjku N65 equivalent of Magabalal was Gun-garrigen (N14?), though he cautions that he was unable to confirm this more generally.
Tindale (1974) attributed to Ngombur several name variants which, upon closer inspection, look to have been misidentified. Ambugula, Ambuku:la and Numbugala appear to be name variants of Umbugarla N43, and Nambuguja is a variant spelling of Nambuguya N49.
West of the South Alligator River between the Ga'baarlgu and the South Alligator (Baker, 1993).
... around Flying Fox Creek and the headwaters of the West Alligator and south towards the South Alligator (Harvey 1992). There was no precise information available on the affiliations of Ngombur in 2007. People in the period 1970 - 1990 associated it with the drainage of the upper Wildman and upper West Alligator. They did not associate any other languages with this area. People also associated Ngombur with areas further to the south on the South Alligator. However, the evidence argues that this area was associated with Umbugarla (Harvey AILEC 0802).
Between West and South Alligator Rivers, N.T. (Oates & Oates 1970:29).
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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).
