This is one of the Noongar / Nyungar W41 groups; see Noongar / Nyungar W41 for a discussion about the relationship between Noongar / Nyungar people names and language/dialect names.
The Noongar Boodjar Waangkiny Language Centre assigns the Kaneang (W4) clan to the 'Kongal-marawar: South-western' dialect, noting the approximate nature of 'how the original 14 recognised Noongar Clans have been drawn into 3 main dialects'.
On the upper Blackwood River; east to a line joining Katanning, Tambellup, Cranbrook, and Tenterden; at Ko-jonup, Collie, Qualeup, Donnybrook, Greenbushes, Bridgetown; headwaters of Warren and Frankland rivers; south bank of Collie River to Collie; in later days they went west to the coast and as far north as Harvey. (Tindale 1974) (The location in Douglas 1968 is different. WA handbook follows Tindale.)
... the southern boundary...about Tenterden (Bignell 1971:6).
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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).
