Colombia 9

Listen to Colombia 9, a 20-year-old man from Ramiriquí, Boyacá, Colombia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 20

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 25/09/2003

PLACE OF BIRTH: Ramiriquí, Boyacá, Colombia

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Colombian (exact ethnicity N/A)

OCCUPATION: university student

EDUCATION:

The subject is engaged in secondary education. (At the moment of submitting the recording, the subject was pursuing his bachelor’s degree in English- language teaching.)

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: none

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: none

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RECORDED BY: Jhon Eduardo Mosquera Pérez

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 23/12/2023

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Now I’m gonna tell you a little bit about my hometown. Ramiriquí, Boyacá, where I was born, is the capital town of the Márquez Province. Ramiriquí is a small town with big lanes. The population of Ramiriquí is around 10,546 inhabitants. Thanks to its historical background is expensive, and thanks as well for the Indigenous communities and some myths and legends, Ramiriquí has been contributing to the department, and the fertile lands surrounding its town contribute to our flourishing agricultural sector. So for a long time, Ramiriquí was well known for maize crops, potatoes too. And in this sense, people have created Festival del Sorbo y la Arepa that is very well known around its borders.

[The subject speaks in Spanish roughly the same thing he just spoke in English]: Les voy a contar un poco acerca del municipio donde yo nací. Ramiriquí, Boyacá, es un municipio capital de la provincia de Marquéz. Ramiriquí es un municipio pequeño con grandes veredas. La publicación de Ramiriquí es de 10,546 habitantes. El pasado histórico es muy grande, gracias además de las comunidades Indígenas, algunos mitos y leyendas, Ramiriquí ha estado contribuyendo al departamento. Adicional a esto, las fértiles tierras alrededor de este municipio han contribuido al sector agrícola. Por un largo tiempo Ramiriquí fue bien conocido por sus cultivos de maíz y de papa. En este sentido las personas han creado el Festival del Sorbo y la Arepa que es conocido en sus alrededores …

TRANSCRIBED BY: Jhon Eduardo Mosquera Pérez

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 29/12/2023

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

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DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

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