The Waimaha language of East Timor

Introduction
Sounds
Grammar
Texts
Team members
Timor Lorosa'e
Acknowledgements

Mauricio Belo John Bowden Nikolaus Himmelmann

The Waimaha project team

The Waimaha documentation project is being undertaken by four main researchers. A number of other researchers are also contributing to the project. The main researchers come from three different countries: East Timor, Australia and Germany. You can follow the links on this page to pages giving further details on each of the researchers.

Maurício Belo

Maurício is a native speaker of Waimaha and comes from Caisido village near Baucau in East Timor. As well as Waimaha, Maurício also speaks Tetum and Malay. He is currently also learning Portuguese.
English
Portuguese
Tetum
DoBeS
VW Stiftung
Team members

Nikolaus (left), Maurício (centre) and John (right) working with some speakers of Waimaha

John Bowden

John is a research fellow in linguistics at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, and he has spent the last ten years working on minority indigenous languages from East Timor and eastern Indonesia.

Nikolaus Himmelmann

Nikolaus is Professor of Linguistics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany. He has a long-standing interest in linguistic typology and the languages of Austronesian family. He has worked in the Philippines, Indonesia, and East Timor.

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