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oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1279864

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Title:The taboo crocodile
ailot0282
Documentation of Eibela
Contributor (researcher):Grant
Contributor (speaker):Suwemi
Contributor (translator):Stalone
Coverage:Papua New Guinea
Date:2013-09-11
Description:This is a recording of Suwemi describing how she broke her hand because a taboo crocodile had been killed. The hand-written transcription prepared by Grant and Stalone is included as a scanned pdf, and the resulting transcription is provided in two ELAN files. File ailot0282-1.eaf is a transcription with free translations while file ailot0282-2.eaf is an ELAN file with the interlininear glossing imported from a .FLEXTEXT annotation.
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 Suwemi describing how she broke her hand because a taboo crocodile had been killed. The hand-written transcription prepared by Grant and Stalone is included as a scanned pdf.
Suwemi is an Eibela woman living in Wawoi Falls and Stalone is an Eibela man living in Lake Campbell. Grant Aiton is a PhD researcher translating the story in order to research the Eibela language.
PhD Researcher conducting research on the Eibela language
Date of birth is approximate.
Date of birth is approximate. Suwemi was born to Howasa, and adopted by Dikino upon Howasa's death.
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text/x-pfsx+xml
application/pdf
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Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1279864
SG0388
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1279864%23
Publisher:Grant Aiton
James Cook University
Subject:narrative
Aimele language
English language
Subject (ISO639):ail
eng
Type:Audio

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Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1279864
DateStamp:  2019-04-01
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Citation: Grant (researcher); Stalone (translator); Suwemi (speaker). 2013-09-11. Grant Aiton.
Terms: area_Europe area_Pacific country_GB country_PG iso639_ail iso639_eng

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Country: United KingdomPapua New Guinea
Area: EuropePacific


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