# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederik-kortlandt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:30:40.964Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederik-kortlandt"
name: "Frederik Kortlandt"
slug: "frederik-kortlandt"
description: "Frederik Herman Henri \"Frits\" Kortlandt 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."
tagline: "Linguist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frederik_Kortlandt.jpg?width=1200"
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-06-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.kortlandt.nl/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump