Vili language
Vili (Civili) is one of the Zone H Bantu languages, grouped with the Kongo clade.
Not to be confused with Vili (Ibhili).
| Vili | |
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| Civili [1] | |
| Native to | Republic of the Congo, Gabon |
Native speakers | 100,000 (2000)[2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | vif |
| Glottolog | vili1238 |
H.12[3] | |
The language has a few thousand native speakers in spread along the coast between southern Gabon and Cabinda, most of them in the Republic of the Congo's Kouilou, Pointe-Noire and Niari departments. The Vili people (singular Muvili, plural Bavili) were the population of the 17th- to 18th-century Kingdom of Loango in the same region.
References
- Civili is pronounced Tchivili and can also be pronounced Tshivili.
- Vili at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
External links
- Vili at WolframAlpha
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