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Tuyuca - This language, spoken by no more than 1,000 people in the eastern Amazon, was listed by the Economist as the world's toughest language.
Ben Colclough: Learning The Lingo: The 5 Hardest Languages To Master Ben Colclough 2011
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What makes Tuyuca so unique is its use of evidentiality: Each verb must contain a suffix that describes how the speaker knows the information they are stating eg: Diga ape-wi means that "the boy played soccer and I know because I saw him."
Ben Colclough: Learning The Lingo: The 5 Hardest Languages To Master Ben Colclough 2011
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The language Tuyuca requires the basis of knowledge (assumption, personal knowledge) as part of the verb-ending.
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