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Roger Marsh Blench (born
August 1, 1953) is a
British linguist,
ethnomusicologist and
development anthropologist. He has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University...
- (DRC),
Nigeria and Cameroon. They
include the
pygmy languages Efé and Asoa.
Blench (2011)
suggests that
Central Sudanic influenced the
development of the noun-class...
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Kaman may be a
language isolate.
Blench (2015)
suggests that
Meyor (Zakhring) and Kman may each be
language isolates.
Blench argues that the
lexical similarities...
- diversity)
based on
Blench (2019). The
Plateau languages are
highly typologically and
lexically diverse. For instance,
Roger Blench (2022)
notes that Beromic...
- has not
happened for (Narrow)
Bantu itself.
According to
Williamson and
Blench,
Southern Bantoid is
divided into the
various Narrow Bantu languages, Jarawan...
- doi:10.1126/science.1078208. JSTOR 3834351. PMID 12714734. S2CID 13350469.
Blench R (2006). Archaeology, Language, and the
African Past.
Rowman Altamira....
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feature is a
tripartite singulative–collective–plurative
number system,
which Blench (2010)
believes is a
result of a noun-classifier
system in the protolanguage...
- no
longer be
shown to be
related to Niger–Congo (or any
other family)."
Blench (2012)
includes Ubangian within Niger–Congo. Güldemann (2018)
notes that...
- the case,
Sidwell &
Blench suggest that
Khasic may have been an
early offshoot of
Palaungic that had
spread westward.
Sidwell &
Blench (2011)
suggest Shompen...
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constitute a
branch of the Volta–Niger
language family.
Williamson and
Blench conclude that the
Igboid languages form a "language cluster" that are somewhat...
