Editing Nilo-Saharan languages (section)

===Blench 2015===
By 2015,<ref>Blench, Roger. 2015. [https://www.academia.edu/15754234/Was_there_a_now-vanished_branch_of_Nilo-Saharan_on_the_Dogon_Plateau_Evidence_from_substrate_vocabulary_in_Bangime_and_Dogon Was there a now-vanished branch of Nilo-Saharan on the Dogon Plateau? Evidence from substrate vocabulary in Bangime and Dogon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703200527/https://www.academia.edu/15754234/Was_there_a_now-vanished_branch_of_Nilo-Saharan_on_the_Dogon_Plateau_Evidence_from_substrate_vocabulary_in_Bangime_and_Dogon |date=2019-07-03 }}.

Available in: http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Isolates/MT%20XX%20Blench%20off%20print.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703170928/http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Isolates/MT%20XX%20Blench%20off%20print.pdf |date=2020-07-03 }}</ref> and again in 2017,<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.academia.edu/28768228| title = Africa over the last 12,000 years| last1 = Blench| first1 = Roger| access-date = 2017-10-21| archive-date = 2022-04-09| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220409051204/https://www.academia.edu/28768228| url-status = live}}</ref> Blench had refined the subclassification of this model, linking Maban with Fur, Kadu with Eastern Sudanic, and Kuliak with the node that contained them, and added a tentative, extinct branch he names "Plateau" as to explain a possible Nilo-Saharan substrate in the Malian [[Dogon languages|Dogon]] and [[Bangime language|Bangime]] languages, for the following structure:

{{clade
|1=[[Berta languages|Berta]]
|3={{clade
|1={{clade
|1=[[Koman languages|Koman]]
|2=[[Gumuz languages|Gumuz]]
}}
|2={{clade
|1=[[Kunama languages|Kunama]]
|2={{clade
|1={{clade
|1=[[Saharan languages|Saharan]]
|2=[[Songhay languages|Songhay]]
}}
|2={{clade
|1={{clade
|1=Plateau †
}}
|label2=Central African
|2={{clade
|1=[[Kuliak languages|Kuliak]]
|2={{clade
|1={{clade
|1=[[Maban languages|Maban]]
|2=[[Fur languages|Fur]]
}}
|2=[[Central Sudanic languages|Central Sudanic]]
|3={{clade
|1=[[Kadu languages|Kadu]]
|2=[[Eastern Sudanic languages|Eastern Sudanic]]
}}
}}
}}
}}
}}
}}
}}
}}

Blench (2021) concludes that Maban may be close to Eastern Sudanic.