Jodï-Sáliban
A Linguistic Family of the Northwest Amazon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4560334 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (0000-0002-4454-7396, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 275-311 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/703238 |
| OpenAlex | W2953709896 |
| Language | HU |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
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
Amazon rainforest · Biology · Geography · Indigenous · Indigenous language · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Linguistics · Nothing · Product (mathematics · Ecology · History · Language and cultural evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |