Lele language (Papua New Guinea)

Lele
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region northeastern Manus Island, Manus Province
Native speakers
unknown (1,300 cited 1982)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lle
Glottolog lele1270[2]

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.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Lele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lele (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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