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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...
- diversity)
based on
Blench (2019). The
Plateau languages are
highly typologically and
lexically diverse. For instance,
Roger Blench (2022)
notes that Beromic...
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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...
-
grouping was
proposed by
Roger Blench (2014),
based on
exclusively shared lexical items that had been
noted by Modi (2013).
Blench (2014)
argues that Greater...
- Nigeria. It is
classified as a
Tarokoid language by
Roger Blench (2023). In 2019,
Blench observed that Pe was
being spoken by all generations, including...
- (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...
- has not
happened for (Narrow)
Bantu itself.
According to
Williamson and
Blench,
Southern Bantoid is
divided into the
various Narrow Bantu languages, Jarawan...
- or,
starting in the 1970s,
combined with them altogether.
Williamson &
Blench (2000)
separate the
languages here
called Volta-Niger from the others. Güldemann...
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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...
- Benue–Congo); the
boundary between Volta–Niger and Kwa has been
repeatedly debated.
Blench (2012)
states that if Benue–Congo is
taken to be "the noun-class languages...
