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Anybody here familiar with the literature on Chadic languages, especially with regards to diachronics/historical phonology? I'd appreciate some texts that are overviews or are otherwise foundational, important, etc.

I'd also be very interested in this.

I'm not familiar with it, so idk whether this is going to help at all, but I happen to have a copy of The World's Major Languages, which does seem to mention a few. It says "the standard work on Chadic classification and the reconstruction of Proto-Chadic" is this:

Newman, P. 1977. Chadic Classification and Reconstructions (Undena, Malibu, Calif.)

It also says that this "treats Chadic vocabulary from a comparative perspective":

Jungraithmayr, Hermann and Kiyoshi Shimizu. 1981. Chadic Lexical Roots. II. Tentative Reconstruction, Grading and Distribution (Marburger Studien zur Afrika- und Asienkunde, A-26, Deitrich Reimer, Berlin)

And that this "is an attempt to establish definitively the membership of Chadic within Afroasiatic":

Newman, P. 1980. The Classification of Chadic Within Afroasiatic (Universitaire Pers, Leiden)

Everything else it mentions is Hausa-specific, so I'm not sure whether that's of interest to y'all, too.

Gravina, R. 2014: The phonology of Proto-Central Chadic (PhD dissertation, University of Leiden)