About Robert McColl Millar
Born 1966. Robert McColl Millar is a writer.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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Who is Robert McColl Millar?
Scottish professor and academic
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Robert McColl Millar was born on 31 May 1966 in Elderslie.
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Robert McColl Millar is a writer.
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