The Yolngu Matha online dictionary says that yan-nhangu is a clan and language.
Yan-nhangu (N72) is a Yolngu clan affiliated with Nhangu N211 language and Dhuwa moiety (Schebeck, 2001:16 and Bowern and James, 2010:361). It is a cover term for Garmalangga N100; Gurryindi N212; Walamangu N79 / Gamal; Mälarra N119; Bindararr N213 and Ngurruwulu N216 (Bowern and James, 2010:363).
For Yolngu language groups see Yolngu Matha N230.
... from the Crocodile Islands in the west to the Wessel Island in the east... Many Yan-nhangu people now live at the ex-mission settlements on their homelands at Milingimbi and Galiwin'ku, although some also live at Maningrida (the next community to the west) and surrounding outstations.... There is also a Yan-nhangu outstation settlement on the largest of the outer Crocodile Islands of Murrungga, some 50 kilometres from the northern Australian coast (Bowern & James, 2010: 361-362).
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Claire Bowern is preparing a learner's guide.
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).
James, Bentley, et .al. 2003. Yan-nhangu dictionary 2003. Milingimbi, NT: B. James.