Roger Blench: Nilo-Saharan materials

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A. General

Paper/graphic Title	Date
Nilo-Saharan language classification	n.d.
Besprechungsartikel. The classification of Nilo-Saharan. Afrika und Übersee, 83:293-307. Review of Ehret (2001)	2002
Nilo-Saharan language map	n.d.
Was there a now-vanished branch of Nilo-Saharan on the Dogon Plateau? Evidence from substrate vocabulary in Bangime and Dogon. MOTHER TONGUE, Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, In Memory of Harold Crane Fleming (1926-2015). XX: 73-89	2015

I have prepared three papers discussing the evidence for a Niger-Saharan macrophylum, i.e. one which would unite Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo. These papers have been synthesised in a single document, a book manuscript I am (slowly) preparing. These can be downloaded as follows;

Title	Status	Date
Niger-Saharan 1 (1992)	Published	1995
Niger-Saharan 2 (1998)	never published
Niger-Saharan 3 (2001)	Published	2007
Niger-Saharan Book	in progress	n.d.

A. Kuliak

Title	Status/Date
So dictionary. Ms. prepared by Bernd Heine & Eithne Carlin, edited by Roger Blench	Unpublished
Segment reversal in Kuliak and its relationship to Nilo-Saharan. Unpublished paper.	2017

B. Kadu

Title	Date	Status
The Kadu languages and their affiliation: between Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic. Insights into Nilo-Saharan Language, History and Culture. Al-Amin Abu-Manga, L. Gilley & A. Storch eds. 101-127. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.	2006	Published
Katcha dictionary. Prepared by Roger Blench from materials left by Roland Stevenson		Unpublished
Kayigang wordlist		Unpublished
Kadu wordlists Prepared by Roger Blench from materials left by Roland Stevenson		Unpublished

C. Eastern Sudanic

Date	Title	Status
2020	Morphological Evidence for the Coherence of East Sudanic. Dotawo 7: Comparative Northern East Sudanic Linguistics. Currently available online only.	Published
	East Sudanic language map	Published

Temein page

Tama

Title	Status
Tama group lexicon Edgar ms.	Unpublished

Nilotic

Title

Dinka English dictionary

English Dinka dictionary

Mabaan dictionary

D. Maban

Date	Title	Status
2021	The Maban languages	Unpublished

E. Central Sudanic

Title	Status
Core and peripheral noun morphology in Central Sudanic languages. Paper for proceedings of 13th Nilo-Saharan Conference, University of Addis Ababa, 6th May, 2017. Moges Yigezu ed.	Submitted 2018
Central Sudanic language map	Published
Central Sudanic overview	Unpublished

F. Saharan

Title	Status/Date
Manga dictionary	Unpublished
Beria dictionary. Compliled from multiple sources by Roger Blench	Unpublished

G. Songhay

Title	Status/Date
Saharan and Songhay form a branch of Nilo-Saharan. Unpublished paper presented at the Afrikanistentag. Köln, 1st June 2012	2012

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