Titels | Prof. dr. |
Initials | M.A.F. |
Main position | Hoogleraar UL |
Disciplines | Language and literature studies of other language groups |
Linguistics | |
Chair | Austronesische en Papua Taalkunde |
Domain | Humanities |
Membership | Member |
Since | 2019 |
Member of Council for the Humanities | |
Member of Humanities | |
Employed by |
Universiteit Leiden, Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) Postbus 9515 2300 RA Leiden tel. 071 527 2783 m.a.f.klamer@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
Personal website | |
Research/publications |
Marian Klamer is a linguist who studies how languages influence one another. She specialises in the native languages of eastern Indonesia. The hundreds of different languages spoken in this region display both similarities and crucial differences. Klamer was the first to document and describe many of these languages. Along with her fellow researchers, she created a public database of information on over 140 minority languages that are threatened with extinction.