INHALT Préface Sergio Baldi: Arabic loans in Bole-Tangale languages Gian Claudio Batic: The Bure language – an overview Václav Blažek: Kujarge wordlist with Chadic (Afroasiatic) cognates Roger Blench: Mwaghavul expressives Bernard Caron: Tonal inversion in Geji and Pelu Richard Gravina: The history of vowels and prosodies in Central Chadic Mary Pearce: Observations concerning the metrical systems of three Chadic languages James Roberts: The tone system of Mawa Olga Stolbova: Postvelars in Chadic – Internal reconstruction and external parallels, Part I Alessandro Suzzi-Valli / Jules Jacques Coly: The Makaa language – First insights Gábor Takács: Musgu and Masa h- vs. ḥ and Afro-Asiatic Henry Tourneux: Les noms de poissons en kotoko commun H. Ekkehard Wolff: On the diachronics of Chadic tone systems – From pitch to tone in Lamang-Hdi Ulrike Zoch: Perfectives in the Bole-Tangale languages