Frederik Kortlandt | |
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 Frits Kortlandt in 2006 | |
| Born | Frederik Herman Henri 19 June 1946 |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Leiden University |
| Main interests | Indo-European languages, historical linguistics |
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 the controversial Indo-Uralic.