Rusenu language
id:
rusenu-language-319-9495861
title:
Rusenu language
text:
Rusenu is a virtually extinct Papuan language discovered in 2007. It was spoken in the east of what is now East Timor. Rusenu was discovered accidentally by the Dutch-Timorese linguist Aone van Engelenhoven, who was studying a language called Makuva, thought since the 1950s to be extinct. Just as he was about to leave for the Netherlands, he was informed about the existence of a language called Rusenu. There was said to be only one elderly woman "who had some knowledge of it." He gave his tape r
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Papuan language of eastern East Timor
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusenu_language
date created:
date modified:
2023-09-10T19:37:49Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q36364","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36364"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
14