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Dr Anthony Jukes
Anthony Jukes is an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow and Chief Investigator of an Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project 'The languages of Minahasa: documentation, description, and support'. This project, running 2011-2015, aims to document and describe several of the endangered languages of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Most of the languages of this area (one of the few majority-Christian areas of Indonesia), as well as their distinctive ethnic cultures, are under pressure from Manado Malay as well as mainstream Indonesian language and culture. Other project members are Atsuko Utsumi (Meisei University, Tokyo), Hendrik Paat (Universitas Negeri Manado, Indonesia), and Timothy Brickell (CRLD, La Trobe).
Between 2005 and 2007 Anthony was a post-doctoral research fellow at the [School of Oriental and African Studies http://www.soas.ac.uk], supported by the [Endangered Languages Documentation Programme http://www.hrelp.org/]. His research project was to document and describe Toratán (Ratahan), an endangered language spoken by about 150 people in a handful of villages located in North Sulawesi. The main goal was to create a [digital corpus of annotated recordings http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/jukes2007toratan], hosted at the [Endangered Languages Archive http://elar.soas.ac.uk/].
He has also conducted linguistic research at postgraduate level on Makassarese, a language with about 2 million speakers located in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. His PhD thesis (University of Melbourne, 2006) is a reference grammar of Makassarese, with special attention to the literary genre contained in manuscripts written in an obsolete local script. In 2010-11 he carried out a pilot project funded by the [Endangered Archives Programme http://eap.bl.uk/], with the aim of evaluating collections of manuscripts held privately in South Sulawesi.
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