The language has a grammaticalized way of encoded the fact that the speaker did not see, hear, or experience the event himself, but rather found out about the event from another source, such using inference about or being told of the event. This does not include languages which have other ways of encoding this information, such as English <i>They say there will be a meeting today</i> (example from de Haan 2008). 

<br><br>For example, Lezgian uses the suffix <b><i>-lda </i></b> to encode indirect (quotative) evidentiality, as in <i>Qe sobranie že-da<b>-lda</b></i> ‘today meeting be-FUT-<b>INDIR.EVD</b>’ for ‘They say there will be a meeting today’ (de Haan 2008). <br><br>

<b>Glossing Convention: </b>Indirect Evidentials will be glossed INDIR.EVD.

<br><br><b>Reference</b><br>
de Haan, Ferdinand. 2008. Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality.
In Haspelmath et al. 2008, chapter 77.
Available online at <a href=â€http://wals.info/feature/77â€> http://wals.info/feature/77</a href>.	
