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'''Russell Jones''' (14 April 1926 – 69 June 2019<ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13639811.2020.1725328 Obituary: Russell Jones (1926–2019)], ''Indonesia and the Malay World'', Volume 48, 2020, Issue 140, pp. 136-143. Retrieved 14 November 2022.</ref>) was a British [[Orientalism|Orientalist]] who had researched [[Ethnic Malays|Malay]] and Indonesian languages and culture in the broad sense. He is a noted scholar of pre-modern Malay literature,<ref>e.g. ''Hikayat Raja Pasai'', Kuala Lumpur: Yayasan Karyawan, 1999.</ref> particularly when it comes to relating the texts to the manuscripts. His other interests include foreign influences on Malay and Indonesian, the Chinese in the Nanyang, and the history of papermaking. His research was focused on the paper and watermarks of Malay manuscripts.
 
== Life and career ==
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His interest in Chinese arose during this period. He acquired a knowledge of the Hokkien dialect of Chinese (Minnanhua), and took the government examinations in spoken Amoy Hokkien following private tuition in Singapore and Penang. This enabled him to introduce a system of recording Chinese names in the department, based on the Chinese characters, and eventually led to the publication of a book on Chinese names,<ref>''Chinese Names: The Traditions Surrounding the Use of Chinese Surnames and Personal Names'', Kuala Lumpur: Pelanduk Publications, 1997.</ref> and another on Chinese loan-words in Malay and Indonesian.<ref>''Chinese Loan-words in Malay and Indonesian: A Background Study'', Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya, 2009.</ref>
 
Returning to Europe after [[Merdeka]], he resumed his studies which included Malay, Dutch and Arabic languages, and Islamic history, in the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], followed by three years of doctoral research at the [[University of Leiden]]. In 1961 he went to Australia, where he taught aswas a lecturer in Malay in the Department of Indonesian and Malay Studies under [[F. H. van Naerssen]] at the [[University of Sydney]]<ref>''[https://calendararchive.usyd.edu.au/Calendar/1963/1963.pdf Calendar of the University of Sydney for the Year 1963]'', Sydney: V. C. N. Blight, 1962, p. 45. Retrieved 14 November 2022.</ref> until 1965. His subsequent academic career until he retired in 1984 was in [[SOAS]], [[University of London]], and where he subsequently remained an honorary Research Fellow. Altogether he published about sixty articles and books.
 
In 1973 he was instrumental in founding the international Indonesian Etymological Project, which gathered a corpus of about twenty thousand loan-words in Indonesian and Malay, leading to the publication of a book in 2007,<ref>''Loan-words in Indonesian and Malay'' (as General editor), Leiden: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 2007.</ref> and embodied in a web site in Bangkok, [http://sealang.net/indonesia http://sealang.net/indonesia]. Also in 1973 he was instrumental in founding a newsletter which over the years was transformed into the academic journal [http://www.tandfonline.com/action/aboutThisJournal?show=aimsScope&journalCode=cimw&#.UnfivxwYe58 ''Indonesia and the Malay World''], published by Routledge.
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== External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110704204953/http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff36423.php Dr Russell Jones] at [[SOAS University of London|School of African and Oriental Studies]]
* [[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13639811.2021.1939521?src=recsys "Malay manuscripts: a guide to paper and watermarks: The collected works of Russell Jones 1972–2015"]] in ''Indonesia and the Malay World'', Volume 49, 2021 - Issue 144, pp. 139-394.
* [https://www.iias.asia/search?search_api_fulltext=%22Russell+Jones%22 References to Russell Jones's work] in [[International Institute for Asian Studies]] newsletters
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170208180232/http://www.planetmole.org/indonesian-news/arabic-language-in-contemporary-indonesian.html Arabic Language in Contemporary Indonesian] at PlanetMole - includes mention of Russell Jones's work ''Arabic Loan-Words in Indonesian''
* [[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13639811.2021.1939521?src=recsys "Malay manuscripts: a guide to paper and watermarks: The collected works of Russell Jones 1972–2015"]] in ''Indonesia and the Malay World'', Volume 49, 2021 - Issue 144, pp. 139-394.
 
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