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Dutch linguist and anthropologist (born 1962)
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Aone van Engelenhoven (born 1962) is a Dutch linguist and anthropologist 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 on the languages and traditions of Maluku and East Timor.

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

In 2007, van Engelenhoven accidentally discovered a virtually extinct language called Rusenu while studying another endangered language from East Timor called Makuva.

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
  • 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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