Africana Linguistica is dedicated to the study of African Languages with special focus on Bantu. The journal welcomes original descriptive, historical and typological papers in phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology and semantics. Contributions on poorly documented and described languages or lesser known language areas as well as those trying to integrate linguistics into interdisciplinary approaches of the African past are highly appreciated. Fellow researchers from Africa are especially encouraged to contribute.


Africana Linguistica is abstracted and indexed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Social Sciences Citation Index; Social Scisearch; Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition; Current Contents/Arts & Humanities; Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences; European Reference Index for the Humanities; International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences / IBZ online; MLA International Bibliography; CSA Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts; Linguistic Bibliography; 'Cultures, Langues, Textes: La Revue de Sommaires' du Centre de documentation A.G. Haudricourt; Scopus.

Africana Linguistica is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal and is covered by Clarivate Analytics.