| Lyélé | |
|---|---|
| Lele | |
| Spoken in | Burkina Faso |
| Native speakers | 130,000 (date missing) |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lee |
The Lyélé language (Lele) is spoken in the Sanguié Province of Burkina Faso by approximately 130,000 people known as Lyéla, Léla, Gourounsi or Gurunsi. It is spoken in the towns of Réo, Kyon, Tenado, Dassa, Didyr, Godyr, Kordié, Pouni and Zawara. The language is also sometimes known by the wider term Gurunsi.
Syntactically, Lyélé is a SVO language with postpositions. Determiners and adjectives are placed after the noun.