According to the WA Handbook, this is a northern dialect of Inggarda W19. Dench (1998) distinguishes a northern dialect of Yingkarta from a southern dialect, but says no distinct names for Yingkarta dialects were recorded.
Austin (1988) also says there are two varieties of Yingkarta, a northern and a southern. He mentions two Yingkarta group names, Manthi (W42) and Thirrily W46, the locations of which appear to correspond to a north - south division, though he does not say that these group names are also the names of the dialects. Further, in his 1992 dictionary, Austin refers to the two dialects as Northern Yinggarda (W42) and Southern Yinggarda W46. Documentation on Yinggarda W18 may be relevant.
At Carnarvon; on the lower Gascoyne River from Doorawarrah to the sea on the swampy distributaries of the river, south to near Grey Point, north only to the southern part of Boolathanna (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).
