Vili language
Not to be confused with Vili (Ibhili).
| Vili | |
|---|---|
| Civili | |
| Native to | Republic of the Congo, Gabon |
Native speakers | 11,000 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
vif |
| Glottolog |
vili1238[2] |
H.12[3] | |
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 at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Vili". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
External links
- Vili at WolframAlpha
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