One morning in around 1992, I went to consult with Professor Kembo Sure who was taking us in a course in language acquisition at Moi University. I observed that the don was working on some charts meant for primary schools in the then created Suba District. Sixteen years down the lane I have come to understand the gravity of the assignment. The task was an attempt at reviving and conserving language of the minority Suba which was under threat by Dholuo spoken by the domineering Luo people.

It is now a major concern of linguists that minority languages are threatened with extinction as their dominant neighbours gain wider acceptability as regional or national lingua francas especially in the African continent.