Vili
Vili is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Angola, Congo - Brazzaville, and Gabon.
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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.
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Words in Vili
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | tchieto | |
| heart | ntima | |
| water | masi | |
| tree | nti | |
| dog | mbwa | |
| one | mueke | |
| two | wali | |
| five | tanu | |
| ten | kumi |
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- LumbuAtlantic-Congo46% alike
- San Salvador KongoAtlantic-Congo46% alike
- Yaka-Pelende-LonzoAtlantic-Congo42% alike
- SukuAtlantic-Congo41% alike
- BwisiAtlantic-Congo41% alike
- KunyiAtlantic-Congo40% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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