(CNN) -- Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died -- and so has the dialect he spoke. The death of the 92-year-old retired engineer means that the Scots dialect known as Cromarty fisherfolk is now consigned to a collection of brief, distorted audio clips. It is the first unique dialect to be lost in Scotland, according to Robert Millar, a reader in linguistics at the School of Language and Literature at Aberdeen University. "Usually minority dialects end up blending in with standard English to form a hybrid. However, this is a completely distinct dialect which has become extinct," he said.
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Bobby Hogg was 92
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The dialect, known as Cromarty fisherfolk, dies with him
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"A little bit of color in our lives is gone," linguist says
"It looks more than likely that this will go the same way as the @placeholder dialect," he said.
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