Marc van Oostendorp

Marc van Oostendorp (; born 15 December 1967, Rotterdam) is a Dutch linguist and Esperantist. From 2004 he has served as a weekly commentator on linguistics for Radio Noord-Holland. Since 2007, he has researched phonological microvariation, dialectology and interlinguistics. He is currently attached to the Radboud University in Nijmegen.

In Flanders and the Netherlands, van Oostendorp is known as a contributor to ''Genootschap Onze Taal'' ("Society for our language"). He collaborates with Belgian copywriter Erik Dams to produce ''Taalpost'', a thrice-weekly e-mailed newsletter on the topic of language in general and Dutch in particular. Provided by Wikipedia