Roger Blench: language materials

 

 

 

 

 

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Most of this material is my own, but some data provided by other scholars is also included. The primary division is by language phylum. Apart from individual phyla, a broad category of World covers global topics.

 

 

1. Niger-Congo

 

Family

Title

Family

Title

General

Westermann

East Benue-Congo

East Benue-Congo page

General

Niger-Congo language map

 

Comparative East Benue-Congo

Dogon

Dogon

 

Benue-Congo Comparative Wordlist

Ijoid

Ijoid

 

Plateau

Kordofanian

Kordofanian

 

Kainji page

Mande

 

 

Jukunoid

Atlantic

 

 

Cross River

Kru

 

 

Dong wordlist

Pre/Mbre

Pre wordlist

Bantoid

Bantoid page

Gur

Gur

Bantu

Bantu page

Adamawa-Ubangian

Adamawa-Ubangian

 

 

Kwa

Kwa page

 

 

West Benue-Congo

West Benue-Congo page

 

 

 

2. Nilo-Saharan

 

3. Afroasiatic

 

4. Khoesan

 

Document

Status

Download PDF version

Khoesan languages map

Published

Khoesan languages

Hadza animal names. Handout, 3rd International Khoisan Worskhop, Riezlern, 7-9th July, 2008

In press

Hadza animal names

Hadza animal names. Powerpoint

Unpublished

Hadza animal names

2009. Was there an interchange between Cushitic pastoralists and Khoesan speakers in the prehistory of Southern Africa and how can this be detected?  Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, 20:31-49. Special volume edited by Wilhelm Möhlig, Frank Seidel & Marc Seifert.

Published

Download

 

5. Africa general page

 

6. Austronesian general page

 

7. Daic [Tai-Kadai]

 

Paper Title

Status

PDF

Daic prehistory. Conference paper,

EuRASEAA 2008.

In press

Daic

 

8. Austroasiatic

 

Paper Title

Status

PDF

Aslian linguistic history

Conference paper, Siem Reap 2006

Aslian

Is Shom Pen a distinct branch of Austroasiatic? Paper presented at ICAAL IV, Bangkok, October 2009 and submitted for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Mon-Khmer Studies.

In press

Shom Pen

 

9. China

 

Country

Paper Title

Status

PDF

China

Stratification in the peopling of China: how far does the linguistic evidence match genetics and archaeology? In; Sanchez-Mazas, Blench, Ross, Lin & Pejros eds. Human migrations in continental East Asia and Taiwan: genetic, linguistic and archaeological evidence. 2008. Taylor & Francis.

Published

China paper

 

10. South Asia

 

Title or resource

Status

PDF

Re-evaluating the linguistic prehistory of South Asia. Presentation at the workshop:  Landscape, demography and subsistence in prehistoric India:  exploratory workshop on the middle Ganges and the Vindhyas. Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, 2-3 June, 2007

Published

South Asia paper

 

Conference images

Northeast India Resources

 

 

 

11. Sino-Tibetan

 

Paper Title

Status

PDF

If agriculture cannot be reconstructed for proto-Sino-Tibetan what are the consequences? Presented at the 42nd Conference on Sino-Tibetan Language and Linguistics. Chiang Mai, November 2-4, 2009.

Unpublished

ST

NE Indian  languages and the origin of Sino-Tibetan. Powerpoint for the 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium  2-5 September 2010. plus accompanying datasheets and draft paper

 

Powerpoint

 

Paper

 

Datasheets

 

12. Tasmanian

 

Paper Title

Status

PDF

Classification of Tasmanian

Published

Tasmanian

 

 

13. Amerindian

 

Paper Title

Status

Status

PDF

The pattern of Amerindian languages

Presented at: OMLL Workshop: New Directions in Historical Linguistics

Lyon, France, May 11-14, 2008

Unpublished

Amerindian

 

14. Isolates

 

Paper Title

PDF

Baŋgi me, a language of unknown affiliation in Northern Mali

Baŋgi me paper

Mpra, a relic language of northern Ghana

Mpra data

Shompen, a language of the Nicobar islands

Shompen

Les Vazimba (scan of Birkeli 1936)

Vazimba

Analysis of Vazimba and Beosi vocabulary

Beosi

 

15. SE Asia general page

 

16. World

 

Paper Title

Status

PDF

Lateral fricatives in Africa and worldwide

Conference paper

Lateral fricatives

From the mountains to the valleys: understanding ethnolinguistic geography in SE Asia. In: Sagart, L.  Blench, R.M. & A. Sanchez-Mazas, (eds.) Perspectives on the Phylogeny of East Asian Languages. 31-50. London: Curzon Press.

Published

East Asian languages paper

Agriculture and phylic dispersals ; re-evaluating the evidence. Presented at the meeting ‘Us and Them: Modelling past genetic, linguistic, and cultural boundaries’. Bordeaux 15–17, May 2008

Unpublished

Farming dispersals

How nominal affixes in Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan can help us understand Niger-Congo noun classes. Paper given at the 41st CALL conference, Leiden 29-31st August, 2011.

Unpublished

Text

Powerpoint

 

English and Pidgin

 

Country

Title

Status

PDF

Cameroun

Signs forbidding Pidgin English

Unpublished slideshow

Cameroun Pidgin

Philippines

Dictionary of Philippines English

Unpublished document

Dictionary of Philippines English

 

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