Journal of West African Languages

Discipline	Linguistics
Language	English, French
Edited by	Adams Bodomo
Publication details
History	1964-present
Publisher	West African Linguistic Society
Frequency	Biannually
Open access	Open access
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. West Afr. Lang.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0022-5401
LCCN	64009419
OCLC no.	844072
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The Journal of West African Languages is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of West African languages. It is the official publication of the West African Linguistic Society.

History

The journal was established in 1964 and up to volume 8 published by Cambridge University Press. It was subsequently taken over by the West African Linguistic Society. Editing and production were initially undertaken at the University of Ibadan, but production was later transferred to the Summer Institute of Linguistics beginning with volume 12. The Journal is in its 48th volume (as of 2021).

The journal is published in volumes of two issues per year (May and November). It is an open access journal, currently published only online.^[1]

The current editor-in-chief is Prof. Dr. Adams Bodomo (Department of African Studies, University of Vienna).

Indexing and abstracting

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Abstracts in Anthropology, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics Abstracts, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA International Bibliography, and ErihPlus.