A History of African Linguistics, edited by H. Ekkehard Wolff (Professor Emeritus at Leipzig University, Chair of African Linguistics) was conceived as the companion volume of The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics (Wolff, ed. 2019). It is a historical survey of African linguistics, geographically organized: each section covers a geographical area, from Western Europe to the Americas and finally Asia and Australia, eight chapters (out of the 12 in the volume) being devoted to linguistic studies carried out in different parts of Africa.

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Bonvini, Emilio

1996 “Repères pour une histoire des connaissances linguistiques des langues africaines. [I. Du XVIe siècle au XVIIIe siècle: dans le sillage des explorations]”. Histoire Épistémologie Langage 18:2.127–148.

Greenberg, Joseph

1963 The Languages of Africa (2nd edition 1966). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Wolff, H. Ekkehard

(ed.) 2019 The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.