Cromarty dialect

The Cromarty dialect, sometimes called Cromarty Fisherfolk dialect², 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 92.³¹

The dialect had a heavy influence on both Highland English and Scottish Gaelic. The dialect was recorded by Am Baile (The Highland Council's culture division) so that if it were to die out it could still be read and studied.

In the Cromarty dialect, the initial sound of interrogative pronouns were dropped.²

The archaic second person pronouns thou, thee, thy, thine, and thyself were still in common in the dialect well into the 20th century.²