Aone van Engelenhoven (born 1962) is a Dutch linguist and anthropologist[1] who teaches at Leiden University. He conducts research in the field of linguistics and anthropology, with a focus on smaller languages from Indonesia. He has carried out extensive research about languages and traditions of Maluku and East Timor.[2]

He was educated at the University of Leiden, where he graduated with a master's degree in comparative linguistics in 1987.[3] He wrote a PhD dissertation on the description of the Leti language in 1995.[4] He started as a lecturer of Austronesian languages in 1993 at Leiden University.

Van Engelenhoven was born to an Indonesian mother from the Leti Islands. He was admitted to a local clan in 1989, giving him a special insight into the culture and allowing him to learn the clan's songs and stories.

In 2007, he accidentally discovered a virtually extinct language called Rusenu while studying another endangered language from East Timor called Makuva.[5]

Publications

  • Concealment, Maintenance and Renaissance: language and ethnicity in the Moluccan community in the Netherlands (2002)
  • Leti, a language of Southwest Maluku (2004)
  • The position of Makuva among the Austronesian languages of East Timor and Southwest Maluku (2009)
  • Searching the Invariant: Semiotactic Explorations into Meaning (2011) ISBN 978-3862880362[6]
  • The Spoor of the Mythical Sailfish (2013)

References

  1. ↑ "'The Forsaken Children of the Compagnie'". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  2. ↑ ORCID. "Aone van Engelenhoven (0000-0003-3334-7396)". orcid.org. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  3. ↑ "Aone van Engelenhoven". Leiden University. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  4. ↑ Engelenhoven, A. (1 January 2004). Leti, a Language of Southwest Maluku. Brill. ISBN 978-90-6718-235-5.
  5. ↑ van Wayenburg, Bruno (28 April 2007). "Noorderlicht Noorderlicht Nieuws: Raadselachtig Rusenu". Archived from the original on 28 April 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  6. ↑ Geerdink-Verkoren, Hetty; Engelenhoven, Aone van. Searching the Invariant: Semiotactic Explorations into Meaning. ASIN 3862880362.
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