Cromarty dialect
Cromarty Scots | |
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Native to | Scotland |
Region | Cromarty |
Extinct | 2 October 2012, with the death of Bobby Hogg[1] |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | None |
The Cromarty dialect of North Northern Scots was spoken in Cromarty, Scotland. The dialect originated from people who moved north from the Firth of Forth in the 15th and 16th centuries. The last native speaker of the dialect, Bobby Hogg, died in 2012 at age 92.[2][1]
The dialect had a heavy influence from both Highland English and Scottish Gaelic. The dialect was recorded so that if it was to die out then the world would still have a record of it.
References[]
- ^ a b "Obituary: Robert (Bobby) Hogg, engineer and last speaker of the Cromarty dialect - The Scotsman". Archived from the original on 2017-10-09.
- ^ "Cromarty fisherfolk dialect's last native speaker dies", BBC News, 2 October 2012.
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