Lele language (Papua New Guinea)

{{Short description|Oceanic language spoken in Papua New Guinea}}

{{Distinguish|Lele language (Guinea)|Lele language (Chad)|Lele language (Bantu)}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Lele

|states=Papua New Guinea

|region=northeastern Manus Island, Manus Province

|speakers=3,181

|date=2015

|ref={{Cite thesis |last=Boettger |first=Juliane |title=Topics in the grammar of Lele: a language of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea |date=2015 |degree=Ph.D. |publisher=James Cook University |url=https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/41204/}}

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Oceanic

|fam4=Admiralty Islands

|fam5=Eastern Admiralty Islands

|fam6=Manus

|fam7=East Manus

|iso3=lle

|glotto=lele1270

|glottorefname=Lele (Papua New Guinea)

}}

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.{{Cite web |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/lle/ |title=Lele|website=Ethnologue |language=en |access-date=2022-07-02}}