 Known as Ndi Igbo in the Igbo language and sometimes identified by their respective Igboid dialects or <unk> , such the <unk> and the <unk> , 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 <unk> , Edo , <unk> , <unk> , Igala , Tiv , Yako , <unk> and Ibibio . 
