DESCR:Comprehensive dictionary of the Gaam language, produced in collaboration with a native speaker, although the accuracy of phonetic notation and semantic glossing is sometimes questionable.
NAME:Bender 1968
AUTHOR:Bender, M. Lionel
FULL:Analysis of a Barya wordlist.
DATA:In: Anthropological Linguistics, 10, 9, pp. 1-24.
LNG:Nara, Modern
CODE:nar-nrb
DESCR:A 200-item wordlist of Nara (Barya), collected by the author and annotated with preliminary etymological findings.
NAME:Bender 1971
AUTHOR:Bender, M. Lionel
YEAR:1971
FULL:The languages of Ethiopia. A new lexicostatistic classification and some problems of diffusion.
DESCR:A lexicostatistical study of most of the languages of Ethiopia. Includes slightly modified Swadesh wordlists for a large number of Cushitic, Omotic, Ethiosemitic, and Nilo-Saharan (Nilotic, Surmic, Koman, etc.) languages. Unfortunately, the survey suffers from numerous inaccuracies of phonetic transcription and semantic glossing, making it practically unusable as a primary source for any of the languages concerned.
DESCR:The most important source of comparative lexical data on various Gumuz dialects, collected by the author himself as well as incorporating data from previous studies, both officially published and archival manuscripts. Unfortunately, the data come in the form of restricted lexical lists rather than complete vocabularies, and Bender's own materials seem to suffer from numerous phonetic and semantic inaccuracies.
NAME:Bender 19831
AUTHOR:Bender, M. Lionel
FULL:Majang phonology and morphology.
DATA:In: Nilo-Saharan Language Studies. Ed. by M. Lionel Ben\-der. Michigan: East Lansing, pp. 114-147.
LNG:Majang
CODE:srm-maj
DESCR:Grammar sketch of Majang with a lot of illustrative lexical data.
NAME:Bender 19832
AUTHOR:Bender, M. Lionel
YEAR:1983
FULL:Remnant Languages of Ethiopia and Sudan.
DATA:In: M. Lionel Bender (ed.). Nilo-Saharan Language Studies: 336-354. Michigan: East Lansing.
LNG:Shabo
CODE:shb-shb
DESCR:Contains notes on various linguistic isolates and languages with questionable affiliation, including a wordlist for Shabo taken from unpublished field notes by Harvey Hoekstra.
NAME:Bender 19833
AUTHOR:Bender, M. Lionel
FULL:Proto-Koman Phonology and Lexicon.
DATA:In: Afrika und Übersee, 66, pp. 259-297.
LNG:Kwama; Opo; Komo; Uduk; Gule
CODE:kom-kwm; kom-opo; kom-kmo; kom-udu; kom-gul
DESCR:A first attempt at reconstructing the phonology and select basic and cultural lexicon of Proto-Koman. The paper contains rich lexical material on most of the known Koman languages, collected by the author himself, although the quality of notation is far from ideal.
NAME:Bender 1994
AUTHOR:Bender, M. Lionel
YEAR:1994
FULL:Aroid (South Omotic) Lexicon.
DATA:Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 38: 133-162.
LNG:Ari
CODE:som-ari
DESCR:Mid-size collection of comparative vocabularies for Ari, Hamer, and Dime, concentrating on inherited South Omotic lexicon. Ari material incorporates data from [Hayward 1990] as well as R. Hayward's previously unpublished fieldwork, along with M. L. Bender's own collected lexica, marked separately.
NAME:Bender 1997
AUTHOR:Bender, M. Lionel
FULL:The Eastern Jebel Languages of Sudan I: Phonology.
DATA:In: Afrika und Übersee, 80, pp. 189-215.
LNG:Aka; Molo; Kelo; Beni Sheko
CODE:jeb-aka; jeb-mol; jeb-kel; jeb-bsh
DESCR:General notes on the phonologies of four East Jebel lects (Aka, Kelo, Molo, Beni Sheko), including comparative 300-item wordlists collected by the author himself.
DESCR:A large and detailed grammatical description of the Yasin dialect of Burushaski, complete with vocabulary and a selection of texts.
NAME:Berger 1998
AUTHOR:Berger, Hermann
FULL:Die Burushaski-Sprache von Hunza und Nager.
DATA:Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
LNG:Burushaski, Hunza
CODE:bur-hnz
DESCR:A huge, three-volume grammatical description of the closely related Hunza and Nagar dialects of Burushaski, complete with vocabulary and a selection of texts.
NAME:Berkov 2006
AUTHOR:Берков, В. П.
FULL:Новый большой русско-норвежский словарь.
DATA:Москва: Живой язык.
LNG:Norwegian, Bokmål
CODE:grm-bok
DESCR:Huge Norwegian-Russian dictionary (more than 210,000 Russian equivalents of Norwegian forms, with "traditional Bokmål" and "radical Bokmål" forms consistently indicated along with the "default" orthographic norm).
NAME:Berman 2001
AUTHOR:Berman, Howard
FULL:Chimariko Linguistic Material.
DATA:In: V. Golla and S. O’Neill (eds.). The Collected Works of Edward Sapir. Vol. 14: Northwest California Linguistics. P. 1039-1076.
LNG:Chimariko
CODE:chi-chi
DESCR:An edition of Sapir’s field notes on Chimariko (collected in 1927) with a sketch of Chimariko phonology and morphology by H. Berman.
NAME:Bezlaj 1995
AUTHOR:Bezlaj, F.
FULL:Etimološki slovar slovenskega jezika, tretja knjiga.
DATA:Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga.
LNG:Slovenian, Resia
CODE:slv-res
DESCR:A Slovene etymology dictionary.
NAME:Bgazhba 1964
AUTHOR:Бгажба, Х. С.
FULL:Русско-абхазский словарь [Russian-Abkhaz dictionary. Ed. by Kh. S. Bgazhba].
DATA:Сухуми: Издательство "Алашара".
LNG:Abkhaz, Abzhuwa
CODE:wcc-abk
DESCR:A large Russian-Abkhaz dictionary (appr. 16,000 entries), based on the Abzhuwa dialect.
NAME:Bgazhba 2006
AUTHOR:Бгажба, Х. С.
FULL:Бзыбский диалект абхазского языка (исследование и тексты). 3-е издание [The Bzyb dialect of Abkhaz. 3rd edition].
DATA:Сухум.
LNG:Abkhaz, Bzyb
CODE:wcc-bzb
DESCR:Detailed description of the specific phonetic, grammatical, and lexical features that separate the Bzyb dialect from the more well-known, but in some respects less archaic, Abzhuwa. Includes a large collection of texts from multiple old and recent sources.
NAME:Black 1971
AUTHOR:Black, Keith; Black, Elizabeth.
FULL:The Moro Language: Grammar and Dictionary.
DATA:Khartoum: Sudan Research Unit, University of Khartoum.
LNG:Moro
CODE:hei-mor
DESCR:Large grammar of the Moro language with an extensive accompanying vocabulary.
NAME:Blažek 2008
AUTHOR:Blažek, Václav
YEAR:2008
FULL:A lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages.
DATA:In: John D. Bengtson (ed.). In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology. In honor of Harold Crane Fleming: 57-148. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
LNG:Ari; Dizi; Nayi
CODE:som-ari; diz-dzi; diz-nay
DESCR:Collection of Swadesh wordlists for most known Omotic languages, with etymological comments by the author. For some languages, contains manuscript data from unpublished or hard-to-find sources.
