Of these, the Wanggumara (Wangkumara) and Galali may have migrated from the Bulloo River and abandoned their language when they arrived.

Bowern says that Ngandangara also appears to have been "very close", although data is too poor for a proper classification.

Breen (1967) states that the (Karnic) speech of the groups along the Wilson River are essentially identical.

[citation needed] Wurm's Wankamara (Galali) is entirely suffixing and morphologically fairly simple having the following word classes: nominal (noun and pronoun), verb, particle, and interjection.

Vowel length is not evenly distributed, but is mostly heard phonetically when preceding voiced consonants.