India 13

Listen to India 13, a 24-year-old man from Mangalore, Karnataka, India. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 24

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 22/09/1986

PLACE OF BIRTH: Mangalore, Karnataka, India

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Asian (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: master’s degree in electrical engineering

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

He lived In Chennai, India, for two years to complete his undergraduate degree and then the United States for a year prior to this recording.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Megan Dooley (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 07/10/2010

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I’m born in Mangalore, umm, which is a small city in the state of Karnataka Country, India. I’m born and brought up there, umm, like all my life, mmm. I completed my undergrad in the same town. So it’s almost twenty-two years. In two years, I was, umm, in another, ah, state in India itself. I’ve been working there and then ah like, oh, January 2009, I came here; I came to US to do my master’s. Um, about my family: My parents, mm, uh, my parents are from Mangalore itself, but, uh, my dad’s parents are, u,h from a village which is, ah, an hour away from the mm the city Mangalore, so this kind of like same culture, but just, ah, smm city was much better to live in. Um, about names [unclear] the location of my city, like hometown is in south India; it’s in the coastal area, umm next to the, ah, Arabian Sea, so we can see the sunset over there to dialogue the native language, which we which I use to spo- speak at home is umm Tulu, and then the state language is Kannada, and then Hindi culture; it’s, ah, where I come from a small community, so, ah, I don’t … I, ah, don’t know; it’s kinda like all Asian culture … nothing special about it.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Megan Dooley (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 07/10/2010

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