People who speak Igbo in Equitorial Guinea are Igbos who ran away from Nigeria during the Biafran war. Some of them went to Cameroon while some others went to Equitorial guinea. The place with the higheest number of Igbo speaking people in that country is Fernanda Po. My mum told me about the place.

ckc: I wont go to any link. I am telling u frm the country's direct site that Igbo is officially recognized and mentioned. Hausa and Yoruba weren't mentioned. That i travel to say USA and decide to speak my native language there is different frm an officially recognized country lanuage. Hausa and Yoruba might be official in some countries but not Equatorial Guinea.

Hmmn, interesting but why not provide the link?

Note that people will speak whatever language they know and I hope your aim is just to start a thread to tell Nigerians that Ibo is spoken EG and nothing more? In any case, there are many more people in EG that Ibos and it's great to see they speak many languages. Here is a sampling of the peoples of EG:

drnoel: countries where igbo is officially spoken http://www.joshuaproject.net/peoples.php?peo3=12189

Countries where yoruba is offficially spoken http://www.joshuaproject.net/peoples.php?peo3=16057

countries where hausa is officially spoken http://www.joshuaproject.net/peoples.php?peo3=12070

But the crime rate in the second link is too much!!!!

But their dialect might seem barely intelligible to us in Nigeria.

Still, it's a nice discovery.

I also heard 90 percent of equatorial Guineans are Roman Catholics.

Keneking: Igbos are indeed doing well globally

Are you suggesting we do thanksgiving or what?!

Keneking: Igbos are indeed doing well globally

LOL.
You again

I wonder what the standards for FP material are these days? Did anyone notice that a 2-line statement without any verifiable source by the OP was posted and in a jiffy, it's on the FP? Where is the objective source of this information, we shouldn't live by hearsay!

Hello readers, there is a difference between "officially recognised" and "spoken" languages. That Igbo is one of the officially recognised doesn't mean that people speaking hausa, french, spanish, yoruba don't reside and speak their language there. For all those SW and N regions citizens trying to derail this topic, think twice. If you don't like the topic, it's either you delete your nairaland account or you go and meet the EQ govt to make your language officially recognised. Besides, you find igbo people in US but their language is not officially recognised there.

Cleanman: Are you suggesting we do thanksgiving or what?!

Go and die...abeg Nah from person mouth I hear am.

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Nice to hear & nice to know... Umu-Igbo kwenu!

sir willy: Hello readers, there is a difference between "officially recognised" and "spoken" languages. That Igbo is one of the officially recognised doesn't mean that people speaking hausa, french, spanish, yoruba don't reside and speak their language there. For all those SW and N regions citizens trying to derail this topic, think twice. If you don't like the topic, it's either you delete your nairaland account or you go and meet the EQ govt to make your language officially recognised. Besides, you find igbo people in US but their language is not officially recognised there.

Where is the source of the information because the OP forgot to post it. Do you have the information? Share if yes.

Ok

Sloan: I wonder what the standards for FP material are these days? Did anyone notice that a 2-line statement without any verifiable source by the OP was posted and in a jiffy, it's on the FP? Where is the objective source of this information, we shouldn't live by hearsay!

Your hate will consume you.
I now believe this yoruba antagonism towards anything igbo is jealousy and envy.
Tufiakwa.
Why can't you just scroll past if you don't like the news or it makes no meaning to you.
Tufiakwa.
Mind you,
Unbridled Hate kills faster than Aids.

berem: I also heard 90 percent of equatorial Guineans are Roman Catholics.

yea, just like their colonial master...d Spaniards are 94% Catholics.

Another good news with regards to d language

pistol:


Your hate will consume you.
I now believe this yoruba antagonism towards anything igbo is jealousy and envy.
Tufiakwa.
Why can't you just scroll past if you don't like the news or it makes no meaning to you.
Tufiakwa.
Mind you,
Unbridled Hate kills faster than Aids.

Why not post the link if you have it? How is it "hate" to ask for factual data or are you an illiterate, slowpoke dumbass ni?

bigfrancis21:

Nice to hear. How is the dialect? Which of Anambra, Delta Igbo, Imo, Enugu, Abia state dialects does it closely resemble?

It is not delta igbo, It is Agbor language.

They will soon know that they are not part of them when a muslim president takes over now( Central African Republic)

Sloan:

Hmmn, interesting but why not provide the link?

Note that people will speak whatever language they know and I hope your aim is just to start a thread to tell Nigerians that Ibo is spoken EG and nothing more? In any case, there are many more people in EG that Ibos and it's great to see they speak many languages. Here is a sampling of the peoples of EG:

Somebody's insecurities are eating him alive already. I'll have you know, first of all, that there is a difference between "spoken" and "officially recognized"; because if we'd like to go by your logic of "spoken", then Somali is spoken even in America (Minneapolis to, be exact).
But when you talk about an "Officially recognized" language, then it's an entirely different case - The said language is listed in the country's official database.

Although we can't have that for now, I hope this should help a little:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_guinea

Dats a nice one

Sloan:

Hmmn, interesting but why not provide the link?

Note that people will speak whatever language they know and I hope your aim is just to start a thread to tell Nigerians that Ibo is spoken EG and nothing more? In any case, there are many more people in EG that Ibos and it's great to see they speak many languages. Here is a sampling of the peoples of EG:

Nobody is saying that other Nigerian languages are not also spoken in EG by Nigerian immigrants. They are, however, only Igbo out of all of them is officially recognized by the government of EG as a national language.

Its a simple logic.

You asked for a link, have it:

Languages of Equatorial Guinea:

Igbo language is a recognized language of EG.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Languages_of_Equatorial_Guinea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Languages_of_Equatorial_Guinea

Sloan:

Where is the source of the information because the OP forgot to post it. Do you have the information? Share if yes.

Have the link you requested for:

Languages of Equatorial Guinea:

Igbo language is a recognized language of EG.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Languages_of_Equatorial_Guinea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Languages_of_Equatorial_Guinea

I met someone in Equatorial Guinea in 2007 who told me that he is an Ibo and have never been to Nigeria. According to him, they were among the children and now their children of those evacuated to Gabon during the war. There were also Ibos that were born by Nigerian Parent without marrying their mothers before Nigerians were evacuated in 1976 by Muritala. Ojukwu actually threatened to annex Malabo if he had won the war. Malabo is on the bight of biafra, if you know what that means

Well that is good

Alikaxon: It is not delta igbo, It is Agbor language.

Delta Igbo has several dialects within it. From Asaba Igbo, to Oshimili Igbo, to Ogwashi Ukwu Igbo, to Ika Igbo, to Ukwuani Igbo, to Ndokwa Igbo. All these are Igbo dialects.

Moreover there's nothing like 'Agbor language'. Don't be an embodiment of ignorance.

K....

Not official but recognized. The official languages are French, spanish and Fang .