"Yinggarda" has been spelt in a number of ways, some linguists (including Dench) writing it as "Yingkarta".
The Ethnologue equates Yinggarda with Pulinya[3] but it is unclear what the basis is for this connection as Wilfrid Douglas, who recorded the name 'Pulinya,' described it as a name for the old Geraldton language.
[specify] Unattested Maya (Maia) is reported to have been "like" Yinggarda and may have been a dialect.
Yinggarda country is around Carnarvon, on the central western coast of Western Australia, and extends inland to near Gascoyne Junction and south to around the mouth of the Wooramel River.
A sketch grammar was written by Alan Dench in 1998, who worked with some of the last speakers and carried out his research mainly in the 1970s and 1980s.