# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kalevi-wiik
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:40:13.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kalevi-wiik"
name: "Kalevi Wiik"
slug: "kalevi-wiik"
description: "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.\""
tagline: "Finnish linguist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kalevi_Wiik.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-08-02"
deathDate: "2015-09-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.52
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump