1. Nils Holmer spent four months in the Scottish Highlands in the mid-1930s.
11 Facts About Nils Holmer
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Nils Holmer visited other parts of the Gaelic- and English-speaking Highlands, especially the Isle of Skye from July to August 1935, where he became acquainted with the common speech of the "Strath" between Broadford and Torrin.
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Nils Holmer published several books and articles on the topic and this material is the largest body of evidence for how this dialect was used and spoken in everyday life.
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Experts in the Gaelic Society of Inverness considered Nils Holmer to be a gifted scholar in the area.
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Nils Holmer carried out fieldwork across a wide range of languages across several continents, including Irish, Siouan languages, the Central American language Guna and the South American language of Choco and Wayuu.
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Nils Holmer salvaged as much as he could from Wakka Wakka language, analysing and publishing the results.
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Nils Holmer recorded and analysed the Dhanggati or Djangadi language in 1969.
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Nils Holmer's work was helpful in the efforts of the Ngabu Bingayi Aboriginal Corporation to promote study of the language at Kempsey TAFE.
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Nils Holmer compiled a grammar and dictionary for the Mununjali language in 1978.
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Nils Holmer was professor of linguistics at Lund University between 1949 and 1969.
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Nils Holmer is notable as the only Swede to have three articles published in the journal Language.