Tindale lists Witja:ri A94 as an alternative name of Whadjuk (W9). However, the comparison of his Witja:ri word list to available Whadjuk word lists indicates that they are data from different languages. Tindale also lists the name 'Ilakuri wongi' as an alternative name for his 'Whadjuk' and, consequently, it is not clear whether it should be considered a variant of Wajuk or Witjaari A94.
The Noongar Boodjar Waangkiny Language Centre assigns the Whadjuk (W9) clan to the 'Djiraly: Northern' dialect, noting the approximate nature of 'how the original 14 recognised Noongar Clans have been drawn into 3 main dialects'.
In this database Wajuk is tentatively treated as a dialect of Noongar / Nyungar W41 on the basis of past classifications. See Noongar / Nyungar W41 for a discussion about the relationship between Noongar / Nyungar people names and language/dialect names.
Swan River and northern and eastern tributaries inland to beyond Mount Helena; at Kalamunda, Armadale, Victoria Plains, south of Toodyay, and western vicinity of York; at Perth; south along coast to near Pinjarra (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).
