Language is an important means of interaction. As people interact with their indigenous language,
their culture, unique experiences and identity are shared and transmitted from one generation to
the next. On the other hand, a language could go into extinction when its speakers cease to pass it
from one generation to the next. An ethnographic study was conducted to evaluate the
epistemological process underlying the threat to Etsako minority language, suggest solutions to
safeguarding the language extinction and above all, provide ethno-historical information of the
people. The findings show that Etsako is seriously under threat of extinction or simply endangered
because the mother tongue is no longer being acquired by children whose parents are from this
language community. The study recommends that the challenges of redeeming and revitalising
Etsako language should be collective responsibility of Etsako people, their traditional rulers,
scholars from Etsako and the government. Especially also, as the home remains the major and
important agent of socialization, it is the contention of this paper that parents and other members
of the language community of Etsako have a key role to play in intergenerational language
transmission. One of the ways they can achieve this is by speaking the mother tongue to the
children.