found: Work cat.: Bon, B. Grammaire l'élé, 1951:p. 135 (l'él ́is language of L'éla (sing., L'él) who live in L'olo in the Loudougou cercle of Upper Volta)
found: Ethnologue, 2000(Lyélé; or Lele; northern & central two-thirds of Sanguié Province of Burkina Faso)
found: Fivaz, D. African languages : a genetic and decimalised classification for bibliographic and general reference, 1977:p. 175, index (lists 5 Lele languages and dialects, including 1 var. Lyele, 1 Chadic lang., 1 Mandekan lang., and 1 Igbira lang.) p. 77 (Lele, Chadic lang., in the Somrai Subgroup)
found: Biebuyck, D.P. African Ethnonyms, 1996:p. 150 (Leele (Zaire), var. Lele) p. 162 (Lyele (Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, var. Lele) Does not list Lele in Chad.)
found: Ethnologue, 13th ed. Internet ed., 1996:index (Lele (Chad), Lele (Zaire), Lele (Papua New Guinea), Lele, var. Lyele (Burkina Faso), Lele (Guinea)) under Chad (Lele: SW Chad, Tandjile Prefecture. Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, East. Different from Lele of Zaire and Lele (Kasena) of Ghana and Burkina Faso) under Zaire (Lele (var. Usilele, Bashilele), listed as a Congo lang. Different from Lele of Central African Republic and Chad) under Burkina Faso (Lyele, var. Lele, Gur language) under Guinea (Lele, no var. a Mandekan language, separate from Maninka)