Aone van Engelenhoven explained

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) ^[6]
The Spoor of the Mythical Sailfish (2013)

Notes and References

Web site: 'The Forsaken Children of the Compagnie'. 11 October 2020. The Jakarta Post. en.
Web site: ORCID. Aone van Engelenhoven (0000-0003-3334-7396). 8 July 2020. orcid.org. en.
Web site: Aone van Engelenhoven. 3 July 2020. Leiden University. en.
Book: Engelenhoven, A.. Leti, a Language of Southwest Maluku. 1 January 2004. Brill. 978-90-6718-235-5. en.
Web site: 28 April 2007. Noorderlicht Noorderlicht Nieuws: Raadselachtig Rusenu. 8 July 2020. van Wayenburg . Bruno. https://web.archive.org/web/20070428080753/http://noorderlicht.vpro.nl/artikelen/34024406/. 28 April 2007.
Book: Geerdink-Verkoren. Hetty. Searching the Invariant: Semiotactic Explorations into Meaning. Engelenhoven. Aone van. .