====== Nete ======

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

===== Situation =====
Nete is spoken in the region north of the Lagaip River, straddling the border between Papua New Guinea's Enga and East Sepik provinces.

Nete's affiliation with the Enga-Southern Highlands family was first noted by Lang (1970, Franklin and Franklin 1978: 83.)

===== Sources =====
Davies and Comrie's (1985: 283-311) 94 comparative terms for Iniai village, collected by Wayne Dye.

===== Phonology =====
There is no published phonology of Nete.

===== Pronouns =====
Davies and Comrie (1985: 310-311) give the following pronouns for Nete, represented phonetically:

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|1 sg.|na-mba  |
|2 sg.|ni-mba  |
|3 sg.|[oɣo]   |
|1 pl.|nani-ma?|
|2 pl.|jaɺa-mba|
|3 pl.|ɸidowa  |
|1 dl.|naɺi-mba|
|2 dl.|[labo]  |
|3 dl.|niɛ-'mbʌ|

The second person dual form above is in error, actually meaning "two". The third person singular appears to be a derivation of /*o/ "that". The third person plural has no known origin, and is likely in error.

===== Verbal morphology =====
Nothing is known about Nete verbal morphology besides what little can be gleaned from third person present glosses in Davies and Comrie (1985: 283-311,) which suggest a system generally similar to that of other Trans-Enga languages.\\
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