Rainer Vossen is Professor Emeritus of African Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His publications include descriptive and comparative studies on various language families as well as on dialectological, sociolinguistic, and historical topics.Antje Meißner PhD studied Ethnology, Prehistory and African Linguistics in Frankfurt. From 1998 to 2003 she was a collaborator in a word-geographical project on Maa.Carlotta Zürn is a student in Comparative Linguistics at Goethe University with a focus on African, Austronesian and Semitic languages.

• Introduction - Abbreviations - Bibliography - The data - A. Non-domestic animals - B. Domestic animals - C. Other fauna-related vocabulary - List of common forms (in alphabetical order) - Word-geographical maps

Rainer Vossen is Professor Emeritus of African Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His publications include descriptive and comparative studies on various language families as well as on dialectological, sociolinguistic, and historical topics.Antje Meißner PhD studied Ethnology, Prehistory and African Linguistics in Frankfurt. From 1998 to 2003 she was a collaborator in a word-geographical project on Maa.Carlotta Zürn is a student in Comparative Linguistics at Goethe University with a focus on African, Austronesian and Semitic languages.

• Introduction - Abbreviations - Bibliography - The data - A. Non-domestic animals - B. Domestic animals - C. Other fauna-related vocabulary - List of common forms (in alphabetical order) - Word-geographical maps

Rainer Vossen is Professor Emeritus of African Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His publications include descriptive and comparative studies on various language families as well as on dialectological, sociolinguistic, and historical topics.Antje Meißner PhD studied Ethnology, Prehistory and African Linguistics in Frankfurt. From 1998 to 2003 she was a collaborator in a word-geographical project on Maa.Carlotta Zürn is a student in Comparative Linguistics at Goethe University with a focus on African, Austronesian and Semitic languages.

• Introduction - Abbreviations - Bibliography - The data - A. Non-domestic animals - B. Domestic animals - C. Other fauna-related vocabulary - List of common forms (in alphabetical order) - Word-geographical maps