The informant, Mr. Labeguerie, aged 25 in 1978, is a native of the village of Milafranga (French: Villefranque), near Bayonne, in the Basque province of Lapurdi (Fr.: Labourd), in what is now the French department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. He is a native speaker of both Basque and French. At the time of the recording here transcribed, he had lived for several years in London, where he regularly spoke Basque with speakers from the southern Basque provinces; this had some effect on his speech, notably the tendency to replace his native voiced uvular approximant with a voiced alveolar trill.