 Known as Ndi Igbo in the Igbo language and sometimes identified by their respective Igboid dialects or subgroupings , such the Anioma and the Ngwa , the culture of the Igbos has been shaped primarily by Igboland 's rainforest climate , its historic trades , ancient migration folklores and social ties with its neighbours as well as far @-@ flung trading and political allies and lately with the Europeans through colonization and the entire Western World through globalization . They speak Igbo , which includes various Igboid languages and dialects . The Igbo homeland is almost surrounded on all sides by other ethnic peoples of southern and central Nigeria namely , the Ijaw , Edo , Itsekiri , Ogoni , Igala , Tiv , Yako , Idoma and Ibibio . 
