This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and educational policies. In doing so, they present significant original research, ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages, sociolinguistics, history and politics.

This edited version of Guthrie's field vocabulary, which contains 7000-8000 lexical entries, updates his work to an orthography now accepted in present-day Zambia and presents the entries in alphabetical order and with cross-references.