Sermon excerpt 20 ailoo0088 Documentation of Eibela

This is a recording of a portion of a church service preformed at a community gathering. The transcription process was recorded and these audio files are included as well as the written transcription in bundle ailoa0089. This project consists in the documentation of Eibela, also called Aimele (ISO-639 AIL), as part of a PhD project at James Cook University which will ultimately result in a grammar of the language along with a dictionary and a corpus of texts. Eibela is a severely endangered language with 300 speakers in Lake Campbell, Western Province in Papua New Guinea. This is a recording of a portion of a church service preformed at a community gathering. Waiye is the village pastor who is delivering a sermon in Kamula, which is then translated into Eibela by Sapai, who is a prominent Eibela community leader. The sermon is delivered in Kamula by Waiye and translated to Eibela by Sapai. Waiye is the village pastor and Sapai is a prominent Eibela community leader. Sapai is the head deacon and prominent community leader. Waiye is a Kamula pastor. Date of birth is approximate.