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Willem Caland
Willem Caland (August 27, 1859, Brielle – March 23, 1932, Utrecht) was a Dutch Indologist. He studied in Leiden and graduated in 1882.
In 1897 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
In Indo-European studies, the term "Caland system" is named after him.
References.
- W. Caland, Kleine Deutsche Schriften... Hrsg. M. Witzel (Wiesbaden, [ca. 1989]).
- Biography in Dutch
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Native American languages (such as Siglit, Quechua, and Greenlandic) and minority languages of France ("Lexique Étymologique du Breton moderne" on Breton; "Le Dialecte Alaman de Colmar" on Alemannic) also claimed his attention.
"Le Langage martien" is a curious book. It contains a discussion of some 40 phrases (amounting to about 500 words), which a certain Mademoiselle Hélène Smith (a well-known spiritualist medium of Geneva), while on a hypnotic visit to the planet