Aone van Engelenhoven

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.

Education and career 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) The Spoor of the Mythical Sailfish (2013)