Native speakers 11,000 (2000) Glottolog vili1238 | ISO 639-3 vif Guthrie code H.12 | |
Native to Republic of the Congo, Gabon Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Bantu (Zone H)
Sira (B.40)
(traditionally Kikongo, H.10)
Vili | ||
Vili (Civili) is one of the Zone H Bantu languages, grouped with the Sira clade (historically also with the Kongo clade).
The language has a few thousand native speakers in spread along the coast between southern Gabon and northern Angola, 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 language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA