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Roy Andrew Miller (born September 5, 1924) is a linguist
Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
 notable for his advocacy of Korean
Korean language

Korean is the official language of North Korea and South Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China....
 and Japanese
Japanese language

IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages....
 as members of the Altaic group of languages.

Miller was born in Winona, Minnesota
Winona, Minnesota

Winona is a city in and the county seat of Winona County, Minnesota, in the U.S. State of Minnesota. Located in picturesque bluff country on the Mississippi River, its most noticeable physical landmark is Sugar Loaf ....
, USA, on September 5th, 1924. In 1953, he completed a PhD
PHD

PHD may refer to:* Parisada Hindu Dharma, an Indonesian reform organization* PHD, a track on The Crystal Method album Tweekend* PHD finger, a protein sequence...
 in Chinese and Japanese at Columbia University in New York. Long a student of languages, his early work in the 1950s was largely with Chinese
Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
 and Tibetan
Tibetan language

The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan....
. For example, in 1969 he wrote the Encyclopædia Britannica
Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclop?dia Britannica is a general English language encyclopedia published by Encyclop?dia Britannica, Inc., a privately held company....
 entry on the Tibeto-Burman Languages of South Asia
South Asia

South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries on the west and the east....
.

He was Professor of Linguistics at the International Christian University
International Christian University

is a non-denominational private university located in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan. Commonly known as ICU , the university was founded in 1949.It is a liberal arts college in Japan that originated from the traditional American system....
 in Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
 from 1955 to 1963.






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Roy Andrew Miller (born September 5, 1924) is a linguist
Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
 notable for his advocacy of Korean
Korean language

Korean is the official language of North Korea and South Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China....
 and Japanese
Japanese language

IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages....
 as members of the Altaic group of languages.

Miller was born in Winona, Minnesota
Winona, Minnesota

Winona is a city in and the county seat of Winona County, Minnesota, in the U.S. State of Minnesota. Located in picturesque bluff country on the Mississippi River, its most noticeable physical landmark is Sugar Loaf ....
, USA, on September 5th, 1924. In 1953, he completed a PhD
PHD

PHD may refer to:* Parisada Hindu Dharma, an Indonesian reform organization* PHD, a track on The Crystal Method album Tweekend* PHD finger, a protein sequence...
 in Chinese and Japanese at Columbia University in New York. Long a student of languages, his early work in the 1950s was largely with Chinese
Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
 and Tibetan
Tibetan language

The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan....
. For example, in 1969 he wrote the Encyclopædia Britannica
Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclop?dia Britannica is a general English language encyclopedia published by Encyclop?dia Britannica, Inc., a privately held company....
 entry on the Tibeto-Burman Languages of South Asia
South Asia

South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries on the west and the east....
.

He was Professor of Linguistics at the International Christian University
International Christian University

is a non-denominational private university located in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan. Commonly known as ICU , the university was founded in 1949.It is a liberal arts college in Japan that originated from the traditional American system....
 in Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
 from 1955 to 1963. Subsequently he taught at Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
; between 1964 and 1970, he was chairman of the department of East and South Asian Languages and Literatures. From 1970 until 1989 he held a similar post at the University of Washington
University of Washington

University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States. Also known as Washington and locally as UW or the U, it is the largest university in the northwestern United States and the oldest public university on the west coast....
 in Seattle. Since then, he has taught in Europe
Europe

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, mainly in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 and Scandinavia
Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a historical and geographical subregion in northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; some authorities also include Finland and some might even include Iceland....
.

Prof. Miller has written extensively on the Japanese language, from A Japanese Reader (1963) and The Japanese Language (1967) to Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages (1971) and Nihongo: In Defense of Japanese (1986). He later broadened his scope by linking Korean both to Japanese and Altaic, most notably in Languages and History: Japanese, Korean, and Altaic (1996).

On the occasion of Miller's 75th birthday, Professors Karl Menges and Nelly Naumann prepared a Festschrift
Festschrift

In academia, a wikt:festschrift is a book honoring a respected academic and presented during his or her lifetime. The term, borrowed from German language, could be translated as celebration publication or celebratory writing....
 highlighting his career and including articles on Altaic languages.

Selected works by Roy Andrew Miller


Books


  • 1967a. The Japanese Language. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle.


  • 1971. Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226527190.


  • 1976. Studies in the Grammatical Tradition in Tibet. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.


  • 1980. Origins of the Japanese Language: Lectures in Japan during the Academic Year 1977-78. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0295957662.


  • 1986. Nihongo: In Defence of Japanese. London: Athlone Press. ISBN 0485112515.


  • 1993. Prolegomena to the First Two Tibetan Grammatical Treatises. (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 30.) Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien.


  • 1996. Languages and History: Japanese, Korean and Altaic. Oslo: Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture. ISBN 9748299694.


Articles


  • 1955a. "Studies in spoken Tibetan I: Phonemics." Journal of the American Oriental Society 75: 46-51.


  • 1955c. "Notes on the Lhasa dialect of the early ninth century." Oriens 8: 284-291.


  • 1955d. "The significance for comparative grammar of some ablauts in the Tibetan number-system". T'oung-pao 43: 287-296.


  • 1956. "Segmental diachronic phonology of a Ladakh (Tibetan) dialect." Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morganländischen Gesellschaft 106: 345-362.


  • 1956. "The Tibeto-Burman ablaut system." Transactions of the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan / Kokusai Toho Gakusha Kaigi kiyo 1: 29-56.


  • 1957. "The phonology of the Old Burmese vowel system as seen in the Myazedi inscription." Transactions of the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan / Kokusai Toho Gakusha Kaigi kiyo 2: 39-43.


  • 1962. "The Si-tu Mahapandita on Tibetan phonology." ????????????? / Yuasa Hachiro hakushi koki kinen ronbunshu / To Dr. Hachiro Yusasa; A Collection of Papers Commemorating His Seventieth Anniversary, 921-933. Tokyo: ??????? / Kokusai Kirisutokyo Daigaku.


  • 1966. "Early evidence for vowel harmony in Tibetan." Language 42: 252-277.


  • 1967b.


  • 1967c. "Some problems in Tibetan transcription of Chinese from Tun-huang." Monumenta Serica 27: 123-48 (publ. 1969).


  • 2002. "The Middle Mongolian vocalic hiatus." Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 55.1-3: 179-205.


Reviews


  • 1955b. Review of ???? Inaba Shoju, ?????????? / Chibettogo koten bunpogaku [Classical Tibetan Language Grammatical Studies] (?? Showa 29), Kyoto: ??? Hozokan, 1954. Language 31: 481-482.


  • 1968. Review of András Róna-Tas, Tibeto-Mongolica: The Loanwords of Mongour and the Development of the Archaic Tibetan Dialects (Indo-Iranian Monographs 7), The Hague: Mouton, 1966. In Language 44.1: 147-168.


  • 1994. "A new grammar of written Tibetan." Review of Stephen Beyer, The Classical Tibetan Language, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. Journal of the American Oriental Society 114.1: 67-76.