 As it is a strong language with hundreds of speakers and a high rate of child acquisition, members of the Wagiman ethnic group gradually ceased teaching the Wagiman language to their children.As a result, many Wagiman people speak Mayali, while only an old lady named Teresa Banderson and her brother named Jabarl Huddlestone are known to still fluently speak Wagiman.The adults in the community understand the Wagiman language to a certain extent or only know a few basic words, but speak Daly River Kriol as their daily language.