Aone van Engelenhoven

{{short description|Dutch linguist and anthropologist (born 1962)}}

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Aone van Engelenhoven (born 1962) is a Dutch linguist and anthropologist{{Cite web|title='The Forsaken Children of the Compagnie'|url=https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2017/03/09/the-forsaken-children-of-the-compagnie.html|access-date=11 October 2020|website=The Jakarta Post}} 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.{{Cite web|last=ORCID|title=Aone van Engelenhoven (0000-0003-3334-7396)|url=http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3334-7396|access-date=8 July 2020|website=orcid.org}}

Van Engelenhoven was educated at the Leiden University, where he graduated with a master's degree in comparative linguistics in 1987.{{Cite web|title=Aone van Engelenhoven|url=https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/aone-van-engelenhoven|access-date=3 July 2020|website=Leiden University}} He wrote a PhD dissertation on the description of the Leti language in 1995.{{Cite book|last=Engelenhoven|first=A.|url=https://brill.com/view/title/23409|title=Leti, a Language of Southwest Maluku|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-6718-235-5}} 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.{{Cite web|date=28 April 2007|title=Noorderlicht Noorderlicht Nieuws: Raadselachtig Rusenu|url=http://noorderlicht.vpro.nl/artikelen/34024406/|access-date=8 July 2020| last = van Wayenburg | first = Bruno|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428080753/http://noorderlicht.vpro.nl/artikelen/34024406/|archive-date=28 April 2007}}