Vili is a Bantu language spoken by about 100,000 people mainly in the south of the Republic of the Congo, and also in southwestern Gabon, and Cabinda, a part of Angola. In particular, it is spoken in the departments of Kouliou, Pointe-Noire and Niari in Congo.
Vili is also known as Kivili, Tsivili, Tchvili or Tshvili. Vili speakers call their languages Civili and themselves Buvili (plural), M'vili (singular).
Vili was first written by Christophe Marichelle (1869-1929), a French missionary and dialectician who learned the language and published a grammar and dictionary. The first Vili person to write and publish material in Vili was Pierre Tchicaya de Boempire, who started writing it in 1937, and translated the Bible into Vili.
Download an alphabet chart for Vili (Excel)
Details of Vili alphabet and pronunciation provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)
Bukulu vandu vandu! Batu lumogni vandu vandu! Misenge i fue. Sin nganzi si ke mogni. Si sitshike mambu me toba, me ntume koku e e.
Honors to the Elders! Honors to the Living! Mangroves plants appear to be dead, but the shoots and roots are still perennial.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vili_people#History
Information about Vili
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vili_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vili_(langue)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vili_people
https://www.101lasttribes.com/tribes/vili.html
https://archive.org/details/DictionnaireViliFrancais/mode/2up
Aka, Bafaw-Balong, Bangi, Basaa, Bemba, Bembe, Bena, Benga, Bhaca, Bube, Bukusu, Bulu, Central Teke, Chichewa, Chokwe, Chuwabu, Comorian, Dciriku, Digo, Duala, Eton, Ewondo, Fang, Ganda/Luganda, Gogo, Gusii, Gwere, Haya, Hehe, Herero, Ibinda, Ikizu, Ikoma, Jita, Kabwa, Kako, Kamba, Kiga, Kikuyu, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kisi, Kogo, Komo, Kongo, Konjo, Koti, Kukuya, Kunda, Kuria, Kwambi, Lambya, Lingala, Loma, Lozi, Luba-Katanga, Luchazi, Lunda, Luvale, Luyana, Makaa, Makonde, Makhuwa, Mandekan, Maore, Masaaba, Mbama, Mbere, Mbukushu, Mbunda, Mbuun, Mende, Mongo, Mpiemo, Mushungulu, Mwani, Nambya, Nande, Ngoni, Nkore, North Teke, Northern Ndebele (South Africa), Northern Ndebele (Zimbabwe), Northern Sotho, Nyamwezi, Nyakyusa, Nyemba, Nyole, Nyoro, Nyungwe, Nzadi, Oroko, OshiWambo, Pagibete, Punu, Ronga, Safwa, Sena, Sengele, Shona, Soga, Songe, Southern Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Sukuma, Swahili, Swati, Tanga, Tembo, Tonga, Tooro, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswa, Tswana, Tumbuka, Umbundu, Venda, Vili, Vwanji, Xhosa, Yakam, Yansi, Yao, Yasa, Yeyi, Zigula, Zinza, Zulu
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 16.04.25. Last modified: 16.04.25
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