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Must you say how you know?

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In languages with evidentials, a statement carries a mark of how you know it — seen with your own eyes, heard from others, or inferred. Turkish, Tibetan and many South American languages work this way.

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Yes 420No 984

From Grambank: grammatical marking of indirect evidence (hearsay, inference).

Yes 420

No 984