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.
Phonology
Consonants LabialAlveolarPost-alv./PalatalVelarNasal Plosive/Affricatevoiceless voiced prenasal vl. prenasal vd. Fricativevoiceless voiced prenasal vl. prenasal vd. RhoticApproximant Consonants may also be labialized [ʷ] when preceding /w/.
Vowels FrontCentralBackClose Close-mid Open-mid Open
References
External links Vili at WolframAlpha