Vili (''Civili'') is one of the
Zone H Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
The t ...
, grouped with the
Kongo clade.
The language has a few thousand native speakers in spread along the coast between southern
Gabon
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and
Cabinda, most of them in the
Republic of the Congo
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's
Kouilou,
Pointe-Noire
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and
Niari
Niari, also known as "Radhi", is a caste in Odisha know for their traditional work "Chudakuta" (making flattened rice) and "Muudikuta" (making puffed rice). They're subcaste of Kshatriya.They are belong to general caste.
History
In history a ...
departments.
The Vili people (singular ''Muvili'', plural ''Bavili'') were the population of the 17th- to 18th-century
Kingdom of Loango
The Kingdom of Loango (also ''Lwããgu'') was a pre-colonial African state, during approximately the 16th to 19th centuries in what is now the western part of the Republic of the Congo, Southern Gabon and Cabinda. Situated to the north of the ...
in the same region.
References
External links
Viliat
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Languages of the Republic of the Congo
Languages of Gabon
Kongo language
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