An evidential is a grammaticalized way of encoding whether or not the speaker saw, heard, or experienced the event himself. <br><br>

A ‘yes’ value indicates that the language has a grammaticalized evidential in the form of a particle. <br><br>

For example, the Dumi particle <i>?e</i> encodes indirect evidentiality. The sentence <i>im-a mwo: dzi-t-I <b>?e</b></i> ‘he-ERG what eat-NON.PRET-s23 <b>INDIR.EVD</b>‘ means ‘What did he/they/you say he was eating?’ That is, this is something like ‘according to the indirect evidence, what am I to understand he is eating?’(de Haan 2008). 

<br><br><b>Note</b>: Languages which do not have a grammaticalized way of encoding evidentiality will be marked <b>N/A</b>. 

<br><br><b>Glossing Convention</b>: Indirect evidentials will be glossed INDIR.EVD. Direct evidentials will be glossed DIR.EVD. 

<br><br><b>Reference</b><br>
de Haan, Ferdinand. 2008. Coding of Evidentiality.
In Haspelmath et al. 2008, chapter 78.
Available online at <a href=â€http://wals.info/feature/78â€> http://wals.info/feature/78</a href>.	

