Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: General aspects -- From missionary linguistics to colonial linguistics -- Part 2: Africa -- Missionary descriptions in a colonial context. The grammatization of Swahili through the study of four missionary grammars from 1885 to 1944 -- Case in selected grammars of Swahili -- The first missionary linguistics in Fernando Po. Transliteration and the quest of Spanishness in an Anglicized colony -- Imagined communities, invented tribe?. Early missionary language documentation and the creation of the Herero -- Pre-colonial language policy of the Rhenish Mission Society perceived as the type of Gustav Warneck's mission doctrine? -- Reducing languages to writing. The politics of transcription in early colonial French Bamanan handbooks -- Part 3: America -- Transculturation, assimilation, and appropriation in the missionary representation of Nahuatl -- Connections between the scientific discourse and the frontier missions in the surroundings of the Viceroyalty of New Granada -- Examples of transcultural processes in two colonial linguistic documents on Jebero (Peru) -- Index of Persons (including authors) -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects.