Indonesia 1

Listen to Indonesia 1, a woman in her 30s from Surabaya and Banjarmasin, South Borneo, Indonesia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 30s

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

PLACE OF BIRTH: Banjarmasin, South Borneo, Indonesia

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: N/A

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: The subject was a university student at the time of this interview.

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

The subject moved to another town in the Java Islands called Surabaya, where she started high school. She lived there until 1996, when she came to the United States to study at the University of Kansas.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

She learned English in school but still has a little trouble with the language.

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RECORDED BY: Crissy Mundey

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in … a … Banjarmasin. That’s a town in a … South Borneo Island in Indonesia. And this a … town is pretty a … maybe famous like for the seafood like things with like fish and shrimp like pretty cheap there, yeah. I was brought up there until like around high school, I think. Yeah, a … I when start high school I moved to another town in a … Java Island. A … it’s the, the city called Surabaya. It’s the second, number two city in Indonesia a … besides the capital city, Jakarta. So, it’s very a … like the population. Maybe the population is, is why they say like number two city. I don’t know, maybe about the population. And I lived there for (how many years) I went to high school for three years and then a … went to college for a … I went to university for three and half years and then I quit, and then I stay a … there a … then for the next five years then finally I came here. There is one language of Indonesia that we all can a…communicate with other like among islands or cities or people in the area there. But every, I think every island have different, I don’t know if you call dialect or language, I’m not really sure. [Counting in Indonesian]: Satu, dua, tiga, empat, lima, enam, tujuh, delapan, sembilan, sepuluh. That’s from one to ten. And for a … Banjar language, my home town language, I think it’s the same. But a … for Java language, one is [laughs] … I can not re- [laughs] OK, um … I think, I’m not sure one may be the same. Satu, a … loro, telu, papat, limo, enam, pitu, wolu, songo, sepuluh.

[Note: In the Javanese speech at the end, the subject says “satu,” but that is actually Indonesian. The Javanese equivalent is “siji.”]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Crissy Mundey

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