چکیده (انگلیسی):

It is a sociolinguistic reality that any living language has the tendency to adapt to the environment in which it
operates whether the language is spoken as a first or second language. The English language has servedthe
nation Nigeria in much capacity – as the language of education, commerce, politics, administration etc.
Nigeria as a multilingual nation with about four hundred or so ethno-linguistic groups each with an
indigenous language has the English language superimposed on them as the official language. So Englishin
Nigeria is continuously undergoing various processes of domestication, naturalization and acculturation
within each ethno-linguistic context. In a situation where two speech communities without a common
language come together for a certain purpose, a means of communication emerges. The emergent language
is usually referred to as a contact language. This paper takes a cursory look at the evolution of Nigeria Pidgin
over the years.