. R.O. Osewa

Language contact as a socio-linguistic phenomenon has been discovered to have brought about several Implications ranging from language choice, language attitude, linguistics borrowing, Code-switching, bi/multilingualism, language endangerment to language loss and death. This study examines the language vitality of Ika dialect, and the endangered language condition of Ika dialect. It investigates the Several factors that have been responsible for this unfortunate language condition. Using the ethno-linguistic Vitality theory, the study delves into the field with the use of structured questionnaires as a tool for ascertaining the endangerment of the Ika dialect. The results of the data analysis suggest that the Ika dialect Is gravely endangered and requires urgent and drastic rescue action to save if from outright loss and eventual death in lgbanke community in Edo state.