Roger Blench: Language isolates

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The general idea of this page is to put all my work on language isolates (or disputed cases) in one place.

 

Region

Year

Paper

Status

Africa

2010

Why is Africa so linguistically undiverse? The issue of substrates and isolates. circulated for the workshopLanguage Isolates in Africa’ Lyon, December 3 and 4,

Unpublished

Africa

2007

Bangi Me: a language of unknown affiliation in Northern Mali. Mother Tongue XII: 147-178.

Published

Africa

2007

Recovering data on Mpra [=Mpre] a possible language isolate in North-Central Ghana

Unpublished

Africa

2008

Linguistic aspects of Hadza interactions with animals. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Khoisan Languages. A. Witzlack ed.

In Press

Madagascar

1936

Les Vazimba (scan of Birkeli)

Published

Madagascar

2010

Analysis of Vazimba and Beosi vocabulary

Unpublished

Asia

2007

The language of the Shom Pen: a language isolate in the Nicobar Islands. Mother Tongue XII: 179-202.

Published

Asia

2011

with P. Sidwell 2011. Is Shom Pen a distinct branch of Austroasiatic? Austroasiatic studies. ICAAL IV. Mon-Khmer Studies, Special Issue 3. 9-18.

Published

 

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