First published in 1971. The Sierra Leone Language Review is the African Language Journal of Fourah Bay College, the University College of Sierra Leone. The Journal is devoted to the detailed study of languages in Sierra Leone and neighbouring areas of West Africa, and also to the more general study and discussion of African languages and language-problems

Table of Contents:

Samuel Ajayi Crowther-a Biographical Note, Provisional Comparison of the English-based Atlantic Creoles, The Language Situation in Mauritius, with Special Reference to Mauritian Creole, Tone-Marking an Mrican Language, with Application to Bemba, Focus and Entailment-Further Problems of Transitivity In Swahili, Some Lexical Differences among Verbs in Kenya Coastal Swahili Dialects, Sanye and Sandawe-a Common Substratum? Hausa naa-'To be' or not 'to be'? A Rausa Poet in Lighter Vein, Diola-Fogny Funeral Songs and the Native Critic, La Langue Manjaku et l'Alternance Consonantique Initiale and Literature, Language, Script and Vernacular Literature in West Africa, An Ethnolinguistic Inventory of the Lower Guinea Coast before 17oo-Part II, Studies devoted to S. W. Koelle's Polyglotta Africana, Research Review, Publications Received, Notes for Contributors