Fiji 4

Listen to Fiji 4, a 29-year-old woman from Cuvu Sigatoka, Fiji. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 29

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 11/11/1979

PLACE OF BIRTH: Cuvu Sigatoka, Fiji

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Indian

OCCUPATION: massage therapist

EDUCATION: undergraduate college

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

At the age of 19, the subject moved to San Jose, California, in the United States, and lived there for eight years before returning to Fiji.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: David Nevell

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 30/06/2008

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in Cuvu Sigatoka [?], which is about, um, let’s see, hour and a half from here.  Where we are at … Wellesley [?]  And, uh, my dad and parents got married there.  And you know, so, we’ve been generations and generations since we migrated from India. Um, so ever since we’ve been here in Fiji.  You know, lived there.  And … here we are. Um, my grandfather is from Tamil Nadu.  And my grandma is from, uh, Bangladesh.  So we’re a mix of Tamile and Bengali a little bit.  Uh, my grandfather always says I look like my grandmother, which is freaky.  But, um, my dad was born in India, but raised here.  He was a baby, about four months old, when he moved to Fiji.  And my mom was born here in a place called Sana Sana, which is ______________ about where I am — Cuvu Sigatoka — it’s about half an hour going towards Nandi.  So…

TRANSCRIBED BY: Joe Calarco (under supervision of David Nevell)

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