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Roger Marsh Blench is a British linguist, ethnomusicologist and development anthropologist. He has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is based in Cambridge, England. He researches, publishes, and works as a consultant.
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References
- ↑ Horom at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- 1 2 Blench, Roger M. 1998. Recent fieldwork in Nigeria: Report on Horom and Tapshin. Ogmios, 9:10-11.
- Blench, Roger. 2012. Horom wordlist.