•No reliable or even unreliable figures available but most groups are very small and language competence declining. Perhaps 100,000 maximum. • Almost all East Kainji languages are threatened, except perhaps Amo and Chawai and many reported to exist may well be extinct. The main source of threat is the spread of Hausa. The isolated lects among the Hausa such as Kuda-Chamo are virtually gone. The main source of endangerment is the spread of Hausa and the small size of communities. There is some energy now to protect larger languages like Boze, Tunzu and Amo