I-VIII -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Tabula gratulatoria -- Karsten Legère - African language studies on the move: A short biography -- Karsten Legère: A bibliography -- Introduction -- Section I: Language use and attitudes -- Der übergeordnete ideologische Rahmen der Sprachkonflikte weltweit -- Indianer und andere Minderheiten - Überlegungen zu einer sprachplanerischen Minoritologie -- Setswana: An under-exploited national resource? -- Can a 'foreign' language be a national medium of education? Linguistic ecology and equality in Namibia -- Revisiting reversing language shift: African languages in high modernity -- Triglossia: African privilege or necessity? -- Section II: Language policy and education -- Using Northern Sotho as medium of instruction in vocational training -- Developing a language policy in an African country: The case of Malawi -- Writing and reading in English and L1: Attitudes among pupils in Lira and Mpigi, Uganda -- Section III: Language description and classification -- The impact of Kiswahili on Kiluguru -- Loan words in Swahili -- The noun phrase in the Kerebe language -- The infinitive as a part of speech in Swahili -- On vowel systems in the Southern Bole-Tangale languages -- !Xun as a type Β language -- How many languages are there in Africa, really? -- Languages and language names in Mozambique, 150 years ago and now -- Observations on Swahili and Midzichenda plant names -- Subject index