blench
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1. blench - Noun
2. blench - Verb
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To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
To fly off; to turn aside.
To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
To draw back from; to deny from fear.
A looking aside or askance.
To grow or make pale.
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As further evidence for his proposal, Blench also cites ethnographic evidence such as musical instruments in Borneo shared in common with Austroasiatic-speaking groups in mainland Southeast Asia.
Each of the proposed higher-order groups has been rejected by other researchers: Greenberg's Chari–Nile by Bender and Blench, and Bender's Core Nilo-Saharan by Dimmendaal and Blench.
Further subbranching, however, has not been as robust; Blench (2006), for example, only accepts the A/B bifurcation of East Chadic.
Major clades The traditional branches and major languages of the Niger–Congo family are: Williamson & Blench (2000) * Kordofanian languages : spoken in southern central Sudan, around the Nuba Mountains (not a single family).
Piron 1995, Williamson & Blench 2000, Blench 2011), but the term is still widely used.
Roger Blench notes that the Gurage languages are highly divergent and wonders whether they might not be a primary branch, reflecting an origin of Afroasiatic in or near Ethiopia.