Aaron • 16 Julio 2025

99670 article Jorge Emilio Roses Labrada JODÏ-SÁLIBAN: A LINGUISTIC FAMILY OF THE NORTHWEST AMAZON 2019 IJAL July Abstract: The Jodï are a small indigenous group of approximately 1,000 people living in relative isolation in the Venezuelan Sierra de Maigualida. Their language has generally been treated as an isolate or left unclassified in the language classification literature. However, different researchers have proposed that Jodï is related to the Cariban, Yanomaman, Sáliban, or “Makú” language families. In this article, I investigate in depth the proposed Jodï-Sáliban relationship by means of comparison of lexical and grammatical material. Based on numerous regular sound correpondences as well as grammatical correspondences—some of which are too idiosyncratic to be nothing but the product of inheritance—I conclude that Jodï is related to the Sáliban languages. [Keywords: Jodï, Mako, Piaroa, Sáliba, Jodï-Sáliban, genetic classification, internal
classification, historical linguistics] 3 275-311 University of Alberta https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/69e7e9cb-b463-4e58-8398-642bf294dc6c/view/ab8e794b-a313-4b2b-92db-ce2b8a47e0cf/2016018_published_with_Appendix.pdf 85