# Kalevi Wiik

> Kaino Kalevi Wiik was a professor of phonetics at the University of Turku, Finland. He was best known for his controversial hypothesis about the effect of the Uralic contact influence on the creation of various Indo-European protolanguages in Northern Europe such as Germanic, Slavic, and Baltic. He also based much of his hypothetical structures on results of genetics of his time. Ludomir R. Lozny states, "Wiik's controversial ideas are rejected by the majority of the scholarly community, but they have attracted the enormous interest of a wider audience."

*Finnish linguist*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1932-08-02
- **Died:** 2015-09-12
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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