Frederik Herman Henri "Frits" Kortlandt is a Dutch former professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
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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.
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Born 1946 · age 80
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