After an intermission in 2021 due to the ‘Corona-Pandemic’  the 2022 BICCL meeting was organized at the Department of African Studies (University of Vienna), 11-12 November 2022. The colloquium  was held in presence; however, colleagues who cannot come to Vienna due to travel restriction can be given the opportunity to present their talk via video conferencing.

Papers  are covering the following topics:

- Descriptive linguistics of individual Chadic languages

- Comparative linguistics of Chadic languages

- Typology of Chadic languages

- Hausa linguistics

- The position of Chadic within Afroasiatic

- Contact between Chadic and non-Chadic languages

- Oral literature in Chadic languages