Vocabulaire et premiers exercices Vili-Français spécialement destines aux Catéchistes

132x100 mm. [8], 168 pp. With frontispiece and several illustrations in text (some full-page). Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards (worn and rubbed). Library stamp. Some light browning.

Extremely rare (first?) edition of this short vocabulary and grammar of the Vili language (or Civili, also known as Tsivili or Fiote), a Bantu language spoken primarily in the Republic of the Congo (Kouilou and Loango).

Apparently unrecorded.

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