Aone van Engelenhoven

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 Timor-Leste.[2]

He was educated at the University of Leiden, where he graduated from 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.[5]

He 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 learning the songs and stories about his clan. In 2003, after being told the ritual language Makuva is not spoken anymore, he went to a birthday party, where, after the guests had become comfortable and drunk started some Makuva expressions. After the realization that Makuva continues to exist as a secret language, he said that "It had not died, but has fallen into a coma." [6]

In 2007, he accidentally discovered a virtually extinct language called Rusenu language, while studying another endangered language from Timor-Leste called Makuva.[6]

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[7]
  • The Spoor of the mythical Sailfish (2013)

References
  1. Post, The Jakarta. "'The Forsaken Children of the Compagnie'". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  2. ORCID. "Aone van Engelenhoven (0000-0003-3334-7396)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  3. "Aone van Engelenhoven". Leiden University. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
  4. Engelenhoven, A. (2004-01-01). Leti, a Language of Southwest Maluku. Brill. ISBN 978-90-6718-235-5.
  5. "Aone van Engelenhoven". LinkedIn.
  6. van Wayenburg, Bruno (2007-04-28). "Noorderlicht Noorderlicht Nieuws: Raadselachtig Rusenu". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  7. Geerdink-Verkoren, Hetty; Engelenhoven, Aone van. Searching the Invariant: Semiotactic Explorations into Meaning.
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