The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has listed a number of Kenyan native languages which it claims are facing possible extinction.
Among them is the Bang'om, also known as Sabaot, which despite enjoying 143,000 speakers, UNESCO says that a larger part of the community no longer speaks it, hence a possible extinction in the coming days.
Also in the list is Boni, a Cushitic tribe in Eastern Kenya, which the organisation says is facing extinction as there only remains 8,000 speakers, the rest having adopted Rendille.
There only remains 400 Dahalo speakers, which makes it one of the heavily threatened tribes, considering that the speakers have no villages of their own.
The initially Cushitic community has lost most of its members to Bantu speaking communities living along the Coast.
UNESCO says that the Omotik community also remains with only 50 speakers, the rest having joined Maasai, which is also the case with the Ongamo (Ngas), which remains with only 1,000 speakers after assimilating the Maasai dialect.
The Suba who inhabit islands around Lake Victoria have also been listed as having lost their dialect after fully being assimilated by the Luo, despite having a population of 300,000.
The Yaaku who speak Yakunte language have also joined the Maasai as a sub-tribe and the Tiriki who have joined the Nandi, and the Kore and Burji communities.