Vili
Civili [1]
Native toRepublic of the Congo, Gabon
Native speakers
100,000 (2000)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3vif
Glottologvili1238
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.

References

  1. Civili is pronounced Tchivili and can also be pronounced Tshivili.
  2. Vili at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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