Thompson (1969, 1976 and 1988) has written about Uutaalnganu and related dialects. West also made some recordings.
To me he has described the extent of uutaalnganu as from Night Island north to Lloyd Bay as far as Lloyd Island. Other informants indicate that in the Claudie River region both uutalnganu and kuutjaanyu were used, and that in the Cape Sidmouth region both uutaalnganu and kiikinyu were used. The general consensus of information puts Cape Sidmouth as the northern boundary of Umpila, and the Claudie River as the southern boundary of Kuuku-Ya?u, leaving Uutaalnganu in the middle (Thompson 1976:233).
... about Claude River to Cape Sidmouth and hinterland (Oates 1975:280).
From mouth of Lockhart River round Cape Direction south along coast almost to Knight Island (LMW); or, along the coast from near Knight Island to Claudie River mouth, but not at Knight Island or in the hinterland (LMW). (Oates 1975:282 on Uwtalngan) (nb Knight Island is an error for Night Island.)
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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).
