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.

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Jodï-Sáliban：亚马逊西北部的一个语言家族

Jodï 是一个由大约 1,000 人组成的小型土著群体，生活在委内瑞拉的 Sierra de Maigualida 中，相对孤立。他们的语言在语言分类文献中通常被视为孤立的或未分类的。然而，不同的研究人员提出，乔迪与加勒比语、亚诺马曼、萨利班或“马库”语系有关。在本文中，我通过比较词汇和语法材料，深入研究了提议的 Jodï-Sáliban 关系。基于大量常规的声音对应以及语法对应——其中一些太特殊，只能是继承的产物——我得出结论，乔迪与萨利班语言有关。