Frederik Kortlandt
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Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt (born 19 June 1946) is a Dutch former professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He writes on Baltic and Slavic languages, the Indo-European languages in general, and Proto-Indo-European, though he has also published studies of languages in other language families. He has also studied ways to associate language families into super-groups such as controversial Indo-Uralic.
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Frederik Kortlandt | |
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Born | Frederik Herman Henri (1946-06-19) 19 June 1946 (age 77) |
Nationality | Dutch |
Occupation | Linguist |
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Institutions | Leiden University |
Main interests | Indo-European languages, historical linguistics |
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