Austin (1987 p.c.) says that the only data available suggests Maya was related to Inggarda W19.
Dench (1998:6) says that any knowledge of the Maia appears to have been lost by the current residents of the area.
Cape Cuvier; Salt Lake; Yanrey River; from Minilya River south to Gascoyne River (Thieberger 1993: 70).
Short coastal strip west of Boolathanna; east of coastal salt lakes to Manberry and Hutton Creek; south to Gascoyne River but only above the floodplain, claimed by the Mandi; inland to Mooka, Mardathuna, Binthalya, and the Kennedy Range (Tindale 1974).
The relative locations of Maya and Yinggarda are not consistent across the various sources: Tindale 1974 and Oates 1975 place Maya north of Yinggarda while Walsh 1981 has Maya south of Yinggarda.
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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).
