Social:Lele language (Papua New Guinea)

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Short description: Oceanic language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Lele
Native toPapua New Guinea
Regionnortheastern Manus Island, Manus Province
Native speakers
3,181 (2015)[1]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Admiralty Islands
        • Eastern Admiralty Islands
          • Manus
            • East Manus
              • Lele
Language codes
ISO 639-3lle
Glottologlele1270[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.[3]

References

  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. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Lele (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/lele1270. 
  3. ↑ "Lele" (in en). https://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/lle/. 

External links

  • Kaipuleohone's Robert Blust collection includes written materials from Lele




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