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Vili language

Bantu language spoken in Central Africa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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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.

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Phonology

Consonants

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Consonants may also be labialized [ʷ] when preceding /w/.[4][5]

Vowels

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