The project aims to describe the linguistic situation in Botswana, which is quite complex and provides examples of dying languages, expanding languages, a pidgin language, an urban group language, and so on. These facts are described as accurately as possible. The project has resulted in a book titled Languages in Botswana which has been published by Longman in 1997. The book is intended for the general reader as well as for post-secondary students interested in the languages of southern Africa. In the book, the structure of the languages are covered, although to a limited extent.
Special attention is given to linguistic features that are rare, or remarkable in some other way.
Most of the languages have so far hardly been treated by linguists, and many interesting unknown items in phonology, morphology and syntax is included. The relationship between the languages is treated, where they are to be found within the Bantu or the Khoisan language families. The different languages are also viewed and discussed sociolinguistically. Andersson, Lars-Gunnar. 1992. Andersson, Lars-Gunnar. 1993.