"The last speakers of Dhanggati were recorded in the mid 1960s, all old people at the time and grandparents of today's Elders who are now in their 60s and 70s. Many of the current Elders are rememberers of the language, keeping the spoken form alive with words and phrases. Some of them have developed their language skills and knowledge with formal learning as a direct result of recent grammatical descriptions, the development of a regular (phonemic) orthography and learning resources. Some of these Elders, notably Aunty Esther Quinlin, have been teaching language (remembered and acquired) in schools since the 1980s, most recently using the resources based on those developed by linguist Amanda Lissarrague and adapted for primary school classrooms by Aunty Esther and Caroline Bradshaw. More analytical work on the language and development of resources will enhance its chances of revival but is dependent on scarce resources currently unavailable to this language group."

"No known L1 speakers (Wurm 2007). Extinct for 2 decades (Wurm 2007)."