Vili language
| Vili | |
|---|---|
| Civili | |
| Native to | Republic of the Congo, Gabon |
Native speakers | (100,000 cited 2000) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | vif |
| Glottolog | vili1238 |
H.12 | |
Vili (Civili) is one of the Zone H Bantu languages, grouped with the Kongo clade.
The language has a few thousand native speakers 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.