Serbia 2

Listen to Serbia 2, a 22-year-old man from Subotica, Vojvodina Province, Serbia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 22

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 16/09/1995

PLACE OF BIRTH: Subotica, Vojvodina Province, Serbia

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Croatian/White

OCCUPATION: college student (music therapy)

EDUCATION: three years of undergraduate work

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The speaker has lived in the Unites States for about three years: in the New York City metro area for six months and in Boston, Massachusetts, for two and a half years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The speaker was raised speaking the Bunjevački dialect, spoken mainly by Croatians living in Serbia.

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

RECORDED BY: Bryn Austin

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 15/08/2017

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I’ve been playing tamburitza for almost fifteen years. Tamburitza is a, um, Croatian traditional instrument, played mostly by people in north of Serbia, east Croatia, and south of Hungary. It’s acoustic stringed instrument with frets, pretty similar to mandolin. It’s a family of instruments: has a bass size to like soprano size, think, five or six different sizes, depending on the area you’re, you are. There’s also couple of different tunings, but most popular is A-E tuning, which means that, uh, most of, some of the instruments have the top string tuned to A, and other instruments have top string tuned to E. Also, all the, the instruments have their strings tuned to the perfect fourth, so starting at the top string, it’s either A, E, B, F♯, or E, B, F♯, C♯.

[The subject reads the following selection from The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić in Serbian]: Na desnoj obali reke, počinjući od samog mosta, nalazi se glavnina kasabe, sa čaršijom, delom u ravnici a delom na obroncima bregova. Na drugoj strani mosta, duž leve obale, proteže se Maluhino Polje, raštrkano predgrađe oko druma koji vodi put Sarajeva. Tako most, sastavljajući dva kraja sarajevskog druma, veže kasabu sa njenim predgrađem.

[The subject then reads the English translation]: On the right bank of the river, starting from the bridge itself, lay the center of the town, with the marketplace, partly on the level and partly on the hillside. On the other side of the bridge, along the left bank, stretched the Maluhino Polje, with a few scattered houses along the road which led to Sarajevo. Thus, the bridge, uniting the two parts of the Sarajevo road, linked the town with its surrounding villages.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Bryn Austin

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 20/02/2018

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