Frederik Kortlandt date of birth:
June 19, 1946
How old is Frederik Kortlandt?
80
Where was Frederik Kortlandt born?
Utrecht, Netherlands
Frederik Kortlandt body shape:
Large
What color are Frederik Kortlandt's eyes?
Blue
What color is Frederik Kortlandt's hair?
Salt and Pepper
What is Frederik Kortlandt's ethnicity?
White
What is Frederik Kortlandt nationality?
Dutch
What is Frederik Kortlandt's occupation?
Educator
Short Biography
Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt (born June 19, 1946, Utrecht) is a 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 Indo-Uralic.