South Africa Twelve - Text

This sample features a twenty-one-year old so-called Colored female from Kleinwilliam in the Western Cape. As she discusses her childhood in the Western Cape her dialect reflects certain signature sounds of the Cape Colored dialect.

Recorded Karina Lemmer, 2005. Edited by Paul Meier, October 4, 2005. Running time 00:03:05

TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH

I was born in Kleinwilliam. It’s a little town where everybody knows everyone. Um, I like it because there—there’s a real large dam the—the oliphants have—and I like it very much, to stay there. My, um, influences comes from Namaqualand. It’s like four hundred kilometers away from Clanwilliam. So that’s my story. Thank you.

UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY JOHN WRIGHT 20 AUGUST, 2008