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] |
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 (singular Muvili, plural Bavili) were the population of the 17th- to 18th-century Kingdom of Loango in the same region.
Vili | |
---|---|
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] |
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 (singular Muvili, plural Bavili) were the population of the 17th- to 18th-century Kingdom of Loango in the same region.