Lele language (Papua New Guinea)

Lele
Native toPapua New Guinea
Regionnortheastern Manus Island, Manus Province
Native speakers
3,181 (2015)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3lle
Glottologlele1270

Lele is an East Manus language of the Austronesian language family spoken in the northeastern part of Manus Island, New Guinea. It has an SVO word order.[2]

  1. ^ Boettger, Juliane (2015). Topics in the grammar of Lele: a language of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (Ph.D. thesis). James Cook University.
  2. ^ "Lele". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2022-07-02.