Vili language
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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.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Post-alv./ Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | k |
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ɡ | |
| prenasal vl. | ᵐp | ⁿt | ᶮt͡ʃ | ᵑk | |
| prenasal vd. | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᶮd͡ʒ | ᵑɡ | |
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ||
| voiced | v | z | |||
| prenasal vl. | ᶬf | ⁿs | |||
| prenasal vd. | ᶬv | ⁿz | |||
| Rhotic | r | ||||
| Approximant | w | l | j |
Consonants may also be labialized [ʷ] when preceding /w/.
Vowels
External links
- at WolframAlpha