Publications
2010 d (VS 2067). ‘On adopting the Limbu script for Wambule’, in Libju-Bhumju 41: 29–42.
2010 c. ‘Grondwet of chaos’, in Samachar 20–2: 7–8.
2010 b. ‘Language Endangerment in the Himalayan Chain: The Impact of Nepali on the Tibeto-Burman Languages of Nepal, India and Bhutan’, pp. 154–165 in Endangered Languages in India. Kamalini Sengupta, ed. New Delhi: The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage.
2010 a. [with co-author Stuart Blackburn] ‘India and the Himalayan chain’, pp. 59–63 in the 3rd edition of the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger.
2009 d. ‘Maoïsten voeren ‘vreedzame protesten’ tegen regering’, in Samachar 18–4: 8.
2009 c. ‘Taalstrijd rond eed Jha eindigt in op non-actief zetten vicepresident’, in Samachar 18–3: 10.
2009 b. ‘Situatie van de bedreigde talen in Nepal’, in Samachar 18–1: 8–9.
2009 a. ‘Belangenstrijd frustreert vredesproces’, in Samachar 18–1: 7–8.
2008. ‘Yadav eerste president van Nepal’, in Samachar 17–3: 6–7.
2007 d. ‘Koppigheid frustreert vredesproces’, in Samachar 16–4: 1–2.
2007 c. ‘About Chaurasia’, pp. 203–224 in Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond. Roland Bielmeier, Felix Haller, eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2007 b. ‘De monarchie als bindende factor in multi-etnisch Nepal’, in Samachar 16–3: 8–9.
2007 a = VS 2064. ‘New wine in an old bottle: updating Konow’s note on Chouraśya’, pp. 132–138 in Vāmbule Rāī Jāti: Bhāṣā ra Saṃskṛti (Wambule Rai Culture and Literature). Gaṇeś Rāī, ed. Kathmandu: Vāmbule Rāī Sahitya Prakāsan.
2006 f. [with co–authors Thirsa Kraaijenbrink, Nirmal Man Tuladhar, George van Driem and Peter de Knijff] ‘Allele frequency distribution for 21 autosomal STR loci in Nepal’, in Forensic Science International, 168 (2–3): 227–231.
2006 e. [with co–authors Emma J. Parkin, Nirmal Man Tuladhar, George van Driem, Peter de Knijff and Mark Jobling] ‘Diversity of 26-locus Y-STR haplotypes in a Nepalese population sample: Isolation and drift in the Himalayas’, in Forensic Science International, 166 (2–3): 176–181.
2006 d. ‘De hobbelige weg naar vrede’, in Samachar 15–4: 5.
2006 c.’Volksopstand maakt einde aan alleenheerschappij Gyenendra’, in Samachar 15–3: 6.
2006 b. ‘De crisis in Nepal houdt aan’, in Samachar 15–2: 8–9.
2006 a. ‘Een historisch akkoord?’, in Samachar 15–1: 4–5.
2005 f. Yor, an illustrated collection of my non-refereed articles written for the Wambule community in Nepal and previously published in Libju-Bhumju magazine.
2005 e = VS 2062. ‘In Loving Memory of My Dear Guru Chandra Bahadur Rai’, in Libju-Bhumju 28.
2005 d. A Grammar of Jero. With a Historical Comparative Study of the Kiranti Languages. Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library. Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, 3. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 90 04 14505 2 – 2005. [Previously announced as A Grammatical Sketch of Jero on this site and in Opgenort 2004a].
2005 c. ‘Gyanendra’s grote gok’, in Samachar 14–1 (2): 1–2.
2005 b. [with co–author Susan van Klaveren] ‘Een verklaring voor de ongelijkheid in de samenleving, De oorsprong van het kastenstelsel in Nepal, deel II’, in Samachar 14–2 (1): 11–12.
2005 a. ‘India en de koning’, in Samachar 14–2 (1): 10.
2004 h. [with co–author Susan van Klaveren] ‘Een verklaring voor de ongelijkheid in de samenleving, De oorsprong van het kastenstelsel in Nepal, deel I’, in Samachar 13–4: 12–13.
2004 g. ‘Maoïsten weigeren te praten met regering Deuba’, in Samachar 13–4: 6.
2004 f. ‘Een nieuwe kans voor Deuba’, in Samachar 13–3: 6.
2004 e. ‘Bevolking de dupe van het conflict. Schets van de situatie in Nepal’, in Samachar 13–2: 5–7.
2004 d = VS 2061. ‘The Origin of Implosive Stops in Wambule Rai’, in Libju-Bhumju 25: 3–8.
2004 c = VS 2060 b.’A Technique for Writing Wambule’, in Libju-Bhumju 24: 19–22.
2004 b. A Grammar of Wambule. Grammar, Lexicon, Texts and Cultural Survey of a Kiranti Tribe of Eastern Nepal (xxix + 900 = 929 pp., 16 illus.). Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library. Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, 2. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 90 04 13831 5 – 2004. [The more comprehensive and reworked commercial edition of the author’s 2002 doctoral dissertation].
2004 a. ‘Implosive and preglottalized stops in Kiranti’, in Linguistics of the Tibeto–Burman Area, Volume 27.1 (pp. 1–27).
2003 = VS 2060 a. ‘A Grammar of Wambule’, in Libju-Bhumju 23: 39–44.
2002 b. Review of ‘Studies in Irian Languages; Part II’, in Bijdragen tot de Taal–, Land– en Volkenkunde 158–I (p. 123–125).
2002 a. The Wāmbule Language. Grammar, Lexicon, Texts and Cultural Survey of a Kiranti Tribe of Eastern Nepal (xxix + 615 = 644 pp., 39 illus.). Amsterdam: Jean Robert Opgenort [the author’s doctoral dissertation, 6 June 2002]. ISBN 90 807158 1 6.
2000 = VS 2056. ‘Publications on Wambule Rai’, in Libju-Bhumju 14: 36–40.
1999 = VS 2055 b. ‘"Ombule" and "Jéro": linguistic and ethnic dimensions’, in Libju-Bhumju 10: 47–48.
1998 b = VS 2055 a. ‘Ongoing linguistic research on the Ombule (Wambule) language’, in Libju-Bhumju 8: 3–4.
1998 a. Review of ‘Irian Jaya Source Materials’, No 9 Series B – No. 3, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 154–4 (pp. 666–667).
1996. Basiscursus Noors (2 delen, 339 pp., 6 cassettes). Sittard: Praktischoling Vertalingen V.O.F.
1993. La SD–analyse et la syntaxe de la construction attributive avec deux constituants nominaux en français. Contre la notion de Petite Phrase nominale (116 pp.) Unpublished MA thesis. Department of French. Free University, Amsterdam.