Aikanã language
Aikanã (sometimes called Tubarão, Corumbiara/Kolumbiara, or Huari/Uari/Wari) is an endangered language isolate spoken by about 200 Aikanã people in Rondônia, Brazil. It is morphologically complex and has SOV word order. Aikanã uses the Latin script. The people live with speakers of Koaia (Kwaza). Classification. Van der Voort (2005) observes similarities among Aikanã, Kanoê, and Kwaza, but believes the evidence is not strong enough to definitively link the three languages together as part of a single language family. Hence, Aikanã is best considered to be a language isolate. An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller  et al. (2013) also found lexical similarities between Aikanã and Kwaza. However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing or genetic inheritance. Jolkesky (2016) also notes that there are lexical similarities with Kanoe, Kwaza, and Nambikwara due to contact. Varieties. Varieties listed by Loukotka (1968): Phonology. Phonological inventory: Vocabulary. Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for Huari and Masaca, as well as Capixana. Aikanã plant and animal names from Silva (2012) are listed in the corresponding .