Robert McColl Millar | |
|---|---|
| Born | 31 May 1966 Elderslie, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Citizenship | British |
| Occupation | professor |
Robert McColl Millar is a Scottish academic, editor, researcher and professor. He holds the chair of Professor in Linguistics and Scottish Language at the University of Aberdeen. He edits the periodical Scottish Language.[1][2]
Biography
He is a native speaker of Scots and hails from a Gaelic-speaking background. He is married to a school teacher who is originally from Luxembourg.[3]
Career
Millar has specialised in the research fields of linguistics, macrolinguistics, Scottish languages and medieval European languages. He chaired the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster from 2009 to 2017.[1]
He has voiced his concerns regarding the drastic decline of the use of Scots, one of the largest minority languages in Europe.[4][5] In August 2020, he responded to a controversy which emerged regarding Scots Wikipedia, assessing that the affected articles displayed a very limited knowledge both of Modern Scots and its earlier manifestations.[6]
References
- 1 2 "Professor Robert Millar | Staff Profile | The School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture | The University of Aberdeen". www.abdn.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ↑ "Scottish Language" – via asls.arts.gla.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Robert McColl Millar". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ↑ Hendry, Ben. "North-east professor wants to save Scots language from fading into history". Press and Journal. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ↑ McCann, Lee. "Speakers wanted for Scots language survey". Evening Express. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ↑ McDonald, Karl (2020-08-28). "Scots Wikipedia taken over by American teenager who wrote thousands of 'very odd' articles without learning language". inews.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 August 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.