Dyami Millarson (Amsterdam, 19 May 1994) is a full-time linguist who performs field research and writes dictionaries together with his father Kenneth Millarson. He writes columns and poems for De Dorpsbode and Lytje Pole in the indigenous language of Schiermonnikoog. He is a language blogger and the editor-in-chief of the languagedeath.com blog. He studies linguistics since 2008. He lives in Frisia since 2009 together with his father Kenneth Millarson. He conducted his first fieldwork in 2011 in Puglia, Italy. He studies Frisian languages since 2016. He considers West Frisian, East Frisian and North Frisian to be language families. He proposes the abolition of the term “dialect.”
He faced significant health challenges in the past, including a severe case of pneumonia at age eleven and a life-threatening abdominal issue at age nineteen. These experiences deepened his resolve to study ancient languages and later Frisian languages as well as Elfdalian. He is a founding board member and the chairman of Foundation Operation X for languages, cultures and perspectives, which focuses on studying and revitalising indigenous languages and integrating culturally and linguistically with respective language communities to earn community membership and respect. His motto is: “Learning languages is saving languages.”
