| Vili | |
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| Civili[1] | |
| Native to | Republic of the Congo, Gabon |
Native speakers | 100,000 (2000)[2] |
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| 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.
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