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Vili language

Vili (Civili, Tshivili) is one of the Zone H Bantu languages, grouped with the Kongo clade.

The language has a few thousand native speakers along the coast between southern Gabon and northern 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.

Consonants may also be labialized [ʷ] when preceding /w/.

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