Guinea 1

Listen to Guinea 1, a 30-year-old man from Guinea. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 30

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1969

PLACE OF BIRTH: Abidjan, in Ivory Coast (but raised in Guinea)

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: A citizen of Guinea, his exact ethnicity is unknown.

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: He has a degree in public relations from the American University in Cairo.

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

He was born in the Ivory Coast but raised in Guinea. At the time of recording, he was living in Cairo, Egypt, attending university there.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

His first language is Mandingo, but he also speaks French, the official language of his country. He also speaks Arabic. His English is fairly slow and halting. In his unscripted talk, he speaks mainly of West African countries (Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Liberia) and their many languages.

The text used in our recordings of scripted speech can be found by clicking here.

RECORDED BY: Krista Scott

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 1999

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

My name is [unclear]. I am thirty [unclear] age. I born in Abidjan, Africas, West Africa. I have finished my license last year in public relation at Azhar University, Cairo. Uh, my country is Guinea Conakry. We have too much language. By the first, we have Mandingo, which have its alphabetic letters, and we have newspaper in this language and books, and there is some school who teach the lang… this language and for the second class we have Susu by language but it’s only for the capital, Conakry, and for the third place we have Fulata. Some people [unclear] Fulani–something like that and we have [unclear], yeah and Toma and but the Mandingo language is almost West Africa language because all of the, all of the country, West Africa country have some people who have the same language, like Guinea, Mali, Africas, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Liberia and Burkina Faso. All of these countries speak this language, so this language is almost like West Africa language.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Phil Hubbard

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 16/08/2008

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

COMMENTARY BY: N/A

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

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