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Conlangery #32: Evidentials

Conlangery Podcast

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Languages Have an Olfactory Evidential

A small number of languages have an auditory and at least one language can make an argument that it has an olfactory evidential or is in the process of inventing one. I mean, how much of our brain is dedicated to sight? It's ridiculous. So, sight's the first one and then if you're going to distinguish between sight and others at all, it will be sight and all other kinds of sensory input. And some languages make a difference between a hearsay evidential and a quoteative evidential.

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