Vili language
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Not to be confused with Vili (Ibhili).
| Vili | |
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| Civili | |
| Native to | Republic of the Congo, Gabon |
Native speakers | 11,000 (2000)[1] |
Language family | Niger–Congo?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | vif |
| Glottolog | vili1238 |
Guthrie code | H.12[2] |
Vili (Civili) is one of the Zone H Bantu languages, grouped with the Kongo clade.
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 (Muvili, singular Bavili) were the population of the 17th- to 18th-century Kingdom of Loango in the same region.
References[]
- ^ Vili at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
External links[]
- Vili at WolframAlpha
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