<h1><font size="4">Final word from Cromarty: Scottish Black Isle dialect silenced forever as last native speaker dies aged 92</font></h1><ul><li style="font-weight:bold"><font size="4">Bobby Hogg was the last person still fluent in the fisherfolk dialect</font></li>
<li><font size="4"><span style="font-weight:bold">His younger brother Gordon had been the second speaker of the Cromarty language until he passed away last year aged 86<br></span></font></li></ul>
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</font>By Jane Borland<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Jane+Borland+" class="author" rel="nofollow"></a></p>
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20:17 GMT, 3 October 2012
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20:17 GMT, 3 October 2012
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</p><div style="overflow:hidden;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:left;text-decoration:none;border:medium none"><font style="font-size:1.2em">It was a traditional dialect used for centuries by fisherfolk.</font></div>
<p><font style="font-size:1.2em">But yesterday it emerged that the language of Cromarty had finally died with the passing of its last speaker.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em">Bobby
Hogg was the only person still fluent in the age-old tongue of the
Black Isle and his death at the age of 92 means it will now exist only
in audio recordings.</font></p><div style="overflow:hidden;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:left;text-decoration:none;border:medium none"><br>Read more: <a style="color:#003399" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2212466/Final-word-Scottish-Cromarty-dialect-silenced-forever-native-speaker-dies-aged-92.html#ixzz28jQMGdAx">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2212466/Final-word-Scottish-Cromarty-dialect-silenced-forever-native-speaker-dies-aged-92.html</a>
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