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...

reconstructible in Proto-Austroasiatic) form part of the later stratum. Roger Blench (2017) suggests that vocabulary related to aquatic subsistence strategies...

ISBN 0-521-66178-1. Ehret (2001) Blench, Roger. 2006. The Niger-Saharan Macrophylum Archived 2013-11-26 at the Wayback Machine. Blench, Roger. 2015. Was there a now-vanished...

diversity) based on Blench (2019). The Plateau languages are highly typologically and lexically diverse. For instance, Roger Blench (2022) notes that Beromic...

Proto-Cushitic was spoken on the Ethiopian Highlands by 5000–4000 BC. Roger Blench hypothesizes that speakers of Cushitic languages may have been the producers...

Eastern Pygmy populations, but not in Western Pygmy populations. However, Roger Blench argues that the Pygmies are not descended from residual hunter-gatherer...

others are usually included in Niger–Congo proper.[citation needed] Roger Blench notes that the Talodi and Heiban families have the noun class systems...

the sense in which the term is still used today. However, according to Roger Blench, the Bantoid languages probably do not actually form a coherent group...

Heine 1978, p. 8. Roger Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms) Heine 1978, p. 39. Blench, Roger (2006). "The Afro-Asiatic...

PMID 26403857. Blench, Roger (2018). Tai-Kadai and Austronesian are Related at Multiple Levels and their Archaeological Interpretation (draft). Blench R (2017)...

Nyimang Temein Jebel Roger Blench (2019): 18  and (2021), like Starostin, only finds support for Bender's Northern branch. Blench proposes the following...

following the desiccation of the Sahara in c. 3500 BCE. According to Roger Blench (2004), all specialists in Niger–Congo languages believe the languages...

musical instruments in Cameroon, based primarily on the research of Roger Blench (2009). Idiophones of Cameroon include percussion instruments, untuned...

Roger Blench. "Niger-Congo classification : Niger-Congo: an alternative view" (PDF). Rogerblench.info. Retrieved 2017-07-07. Williamson, Kay & Blench...

that of Proto-Bantu, namely (C)V-CVCV (Williamson 2000, etc.). However, Roger Blench (2016) proposes a trisyllabic (CVCVCV) syllabic structure for Proto-Niger–Congo...

south (Karen and Lolo–Burmese). Roger Blench argues that agriculture cannot be reconstructed for Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Blench and Mark Post have proposed that...

believes that for now it is best considered an independent language family. Roger Blench argues that the Songhay and Saharan languages form a Songhay-Saharan...

367) and 105. Wutana, population 1,075 in Bauchi Emirate. (p. 431). Roger Blench also cites Temple in his Atlas of Nigerian languages. Nothing is known...

evidence. Roger Blench (2016) notes that the Talodi and Heiban branches share many typological similarities, but few lexical similarities. Blench (2016)...

Nafusi which is considered a dialect of Eastern Berber. Before Kossmann, Roger Blench (2006) considered East Zanati to be a dialect cluster consisting of Sened...

that they likely diverged from Niger–Congo very early.[citation needed] Roger Blench comments, Dogon is both lexically and structurally very different from...

Espresso Machine". Smithsonian. Retrieved 4 April 2019. "Roger Blench: Postcard from Eritrea". RogerBlench.info. Retrieved 16 November 2021. "Invention of the...

required) Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. "Roger Blench: Mwaghavul...

trading for agricultural products with the farmers while they do so. Roger Blench has proposed that Twa (Pygmies) originated as a caste like they are today...

family. The following Proto-Siangic forms reconstructed by Mark Post & Roger Blench (2011:8-9) do not have lexical parallels with Proto-Tani, and are unique...

African Studies. Blench, Roger. 2001. Pastoralism in the new millennium. FAO: Animal Health and Production Series, No 150. Blench, Roger. 2003. The transformation...

Platoid Jukunoid Kainji Plateau Ukaan is also related to Benue–Congo; Roger Blench suspects it might be either the most divergent (East) Benue–Congo language...

Central Nigeria". Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages. Blench, Roger. Comparative Ron wordlist. Blench, Roger. 2012. Linguistic...

subsequent literature. Further subbranching, however, has not been as robust; Roger Blench (2006), for example, only accepts the A/B bifurcation of East Chadic...

be a language isolate. Roger Blench classifies the Shompen language of the Nicobar Islands as a language isolate. Roger Blench also considers Puroik to...