Martine Irma Robbeets (24 October 1972) is a Belgian comparative linguist and japanologist.
In addition to being a lecturer at the University of Mainz, she is also a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.
[2] In 2017, Robbeets proposed that Japanese (and possibly Korean) originated as a hybrid language.
She proposed that the ancestral home of the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages was somewhere in northwestern Manchuria.
A group of those proto-Altaic ("Transeurasian") speakers would have migrated south into the modern Liaoning province, where they would have been mostly assimilated by an agricultural community with an Austronesian-like language.