Wejamo's death ailot0249 Documentation of Eibela

This is a recording of Sekoija describing the illness and death of Wejamo. The transcription of this recording is available in session ailoa0250. 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. Sekoija is an Eibela woman living in Wawoi Falls, and is the speaker of the story being recorded. Grant Aiton is a PhD researcher recording the story in order to research the Eibela language. PhD Researcher conducting research on the Eibela language Date of birth is approximate.