Roger Blench

Roger Marsh Blench (b. 1 Jan. 1953, London) is a British linguist, ethnomusicologist and development anthropologist, currently with the McDonal Institute for Archaelogical Research, Kay Williamson Educational Foundation, Cambridge, UK.

An expert in African linguistics (Niger–Congo, Nilo-Saharan and Afroasiatic language families), Roger Blench has also studied the relationship between linguistics and archaeology in Southeast Asia.