Luren language explained

Lu
Also Known As:	Luren
States:	China
Region:	Guizhou
Ethnicity:	Luren
Extinct:	1960s?
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	Sinitic?
Fam3:	Macro-Bai?
Fam4:	Cai–Long^[1]
Fam5:	Longjia–Luren?^[2]
Iso3:	none
Glotto:	lure1234
Glottorefname:	Luren

Lu, or Luren (卢人), is an extinct Sino-Tibetan language of Guizhou, China. The Luren language may have been extinct since the 1960s.^{[3] [4]}

Luren is closely related to Caijia and Longjia.^{[5] [3]} However, the classification of these languages within Sino-Tibetan is uncertain. Zhengzhang (2010) suggests that Caijia and Bai form a Macro-Bai branch,^[6] while Sagart argues that Caijia and Waxiang represent an early split from Old Chinese.^[7]

In Dafang County, Guizhou, the Lu people are located in Huangni 黄泥乡, Dashui 大水乡, Gamu 嘎木乡, and Shachang 纱厂镇 townships (Dafang County Gazetteer 1996:157).

See also

• Macro-Bai comparative vocabulary list (Wiktionary)

Further reading

• Guizhou provincial ethnic classification commission, linguistic division [贵州省民族识别工作队语言组]. 1982. The language of the Caijia [''Caijia de yuyan'' 蔡家的语言]. m.s.
• Guizhou provincial ethnic classification commission [贵州省民族识别工作队]. 1984. Report on ethnic classification issues of the Nanlong people (Nanjing-Longjia) [南龙人（南京-龙家）族别问题调查报告]. m.s.
• Hsiu, Andrew. 2013. "New endangered Tibeto-Burman languages of southwestern China: Mondzish, Longjia, Pherbu, and others". Presentation given at ICSTLL 46, Dartmouth College.
• Zhao Weifeng [赵卫峰]. 2011. History of the Bai people of Guizhou [贵州白族史略]. Yinchuan, China: Ningxia People's Press [宁夏人民出版社].
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2021. The Lu(ren) language of Guizhou, China. Paper presented at 9th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 9), Santa Margherita-Portofino. (Online Meeting.)

Notes and References

1. Guizhou provincial ethnic classification commission [贵州省民族识别工作队]. 1984. Report on ethnic classification issues of the Nanlong people (Nanjing-Longjia) [南龙人（南京-龙家）族别问题调查报告]. m.s.
2. Web site: Glottolog 4.8 - Longjia-Luren . 2023-07-10 . 2023-09-06 . . Hammarström . Harald . https://web.archive.org/web/20230913161050/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/long1422 . 2023-09-13 . live . . Harald Hammarström . Forkel . Robert . . 10.5281/zenodo.7398962 . Haspelmath . Martin . Martin Haspelmath . Bank . Sebastian . free.
3. Guizhou Province Gazetteer: Ethnic Gazetteer [贵州省志. 民族志] (2002). Guiyang: Guizhou Ethnic Publishing House [貴州民族出版社].
4. Web site: 白族家园-讲义寨 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141017095638/http://222.210.17.136/mzwz/news/21/z_21_46506.html . dead . 2014-10-17 . 222.210.17.136 . 2011-01-28 . 2013-11-27 .
5. Hölzl, Andreas. 2021. Longjia (China) - Language Contexts. Language Documentation and Description 20, 13-34.
6. Zhèngzhāng Shàngfāng [郑张尚芳]. 2010. Càijiāhuà Báiyǔ guānxì jí cígēn bǐjiào [蔡家话白语关系及词根比较]. In Pān Wǔyún and Shěn Zhōngwěi [潘悟云、沈钟伟] (eds.). Yánjūzhī Lè, The Joy of Research [研究之乐-庆祝王士元先生七十五寿辰学术论文集], II, 389–400. Shanghai: Shanghai Educational Publishing House.
7. Sagart, Laurent. 2011. Classifying Chinese dialects/Sinitic languages on shared innovations. Talk given at Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l’Asie orientale, Norgent sur Marne.