Roger Blench (1953- ) is a British linguist, ethnomusicologist and development anthropologist. He has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and remains based in Cambridge, England. He actively researches and publishes, although he works as a private consultant rather than in academia.
His main area of linguistic interest is the Niger-Congo language family although he has also researched the Nilo-Saharan and
He collaborated extensively with the late Professor Kay Williamson, who died in January 2005, and is now a trustee of the Kay Williamson Educational Fund, which exists both to publish the unpublished material left by Kay Williamson and to promote the study of Nigerian languages. A series of publications supported by the trust is under way with Rudiger Koeppe Verlag in Cologne.
Roger Blench has also conducted research and evaluations of international development activities worldwide, as a consultant and formerly as a research fellow of the Overseas Development Institute in London.
Books
- 1992. Crozier, D.H. and Blench, R.M. An Index of Nigerian Languages. Abuja: Language Development Centre, Ilorin: University of Ilorin, Dallas: SIL. ISBN 0-88312-611-7
- 1997. Blench, R.M. & M.Spriggs eds. Archaeology and Language I: theoretical and methodological orientations. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-11760-7
- 1998. Blench, R.M. & M.Spriggs eds. Archaeology and Language II: correlating archaeological and linguistic hypotheses. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-11761-5
- 1999a. Blench, R.M. & M.Spriggs eds. Archaeology and Language III: Artefacts, languages, and texts. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-10054-2
- 1999b. Blench, R.M. & M.Spriggs eds. Archaeology and Language, IV: language change and cultural transformation. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-11786-0
- 2000. Blench, R.M. & K.C. MacDonald eds. The origin and development of African livestock. University College Press, London.
- 2005. L.Sagart, Blench, R.M. & A. Sanchez-Mazas eds. The peopling of East Asia. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-32242-1
- 2006. Archaeology, Language, and the African Past. AltaMira Press. ISBN 0-759-10465-4
- 2008. Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Blench, R.M., Ross, M.D., I. Peiros & Marie Lin eds. Human migrations in continental East Asia and Taiwan. Matching archaeology, linguistics and genetics. London: Routledge.
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