Luo or LUO may refer to:

Luo peoples and languages

Luo peoples The Luo (also spelled Lwo) are several ethnic group, ethnically and language family, linguistically related Nilotic, Nilotic ethnic groups that inhabit an area ranging from Egypt and Sudan to South Sudan and Ethiopia, through Northern Uganda an ...

, an ethno-linguistic group of eastern and central Africa **

Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania The Luo are a Nilotic-speaking ethnic group native to western Kenya and the Mara Region of northern Tanzania. The Luo are the fourth-largest ethnic group (10.65%) in Kenya, after the Kikuyu (17.13%), the Luhya (14.35%) and the Kalenjin (13 ...

or Joluo, an ethnic group in western Kenya, eastern Uganda, and northern Tanzania. *** Luoland, the tribal homeland of the group immediately above *

Luo languages The dozen Luo, Lwo or Lwoian languages are spoken by the Luo peoples in an area ranging from southern Sudan to western Ethiopia to southern Kenya, with Dholuo extending into northern Tanzania and Alur into the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ...

, a dozen languages spoken by the Luo peoples ** Luo language (Kenya and Tanzania) or Dholuo **

Southern Luo The Southern Luo languages are a subgroup of the Luo languages and form a dialect cluster spoken from Uganda and neighboring countries. Classification The Southern Luo dialects are classified within the Glottolog database as follows: * Southe ...

, a dialect cluster of Uganda and neighboring countries *

Luo language (Cameroon) The Luo language is an unclassified language spoken in a section of the Atta region of Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Cha ...

, a nearly extinct language of Cameroon - not associated with Luo languages above

People

Luo (surname) Luo or Lo refers to the Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin romanizations of the Chinese surnames wikt:羅, 羅 (Simplified Chinese: wikt:罗, 罗, pinyin: Luó, Jyutping: Lo4) and wikt:駱, 駱 (Simplified Chinese: wikt:骆, 骆, pinyin: Luò, Jyutping: Lo ...

(羅), Chinese surname * Luò (surname) (駱), Chinese surname * Jing Jing Luo, Chinese composer * Luo Changqing, killed in the 2019 Hong Kong protests * Michael Luo (born 1976), American journalist *

Show Lo Show Lo Chih-hsiang (; born July 30, 1979), is a Taiwanese singer, actor, and television host. Lo debuted as a member of Taiwanese boy group Four Heavenly Kings in 1996 after winning a singing and dancing competition. When the group disbanded ...

(born 1979), Taiwanese singer, dancer and actor

Geography

Luo (state) Luo was a minor Chinese feudal state that existed during the Shang dynasty. Afterwards, when Zhou overthrew Shang, it became one of Zhou states during the Spring and Autumn period The Spring and Autumn period () was a period in History of C ...

, a Chinese feudal state, 11th–7th centuries B.C. *

Luo River (Henan) The Luo River () is a tributary of the Yellow River in China. It rises in the southeast flank of Mount Hua in Shaanxi province and flows east into Henan province, where it eventually joins the Yellow River at the city of Gongyi. The river's tota ...

(洛河, Luohe), a tributary of the Yellow River, flows mostly in Henan province of China *

Luo River (Shaanxi) Luo River, also known by its Chinese name as the is a tributary of the Wei River. It flows through the Loess Plateau and has a length of about . History The area between the Luo and the Yellow River was known in ancient China The histor ...

(洛河, Luohe), river in Shaanxi, China, second largest tributary of the Wei River *

Luo River (Fujian) The Luoyang River, or Luoyang Jiang, is a river in Quanzhou in Fujian, China. It flows in the general southern direction and forms a long and wide estuary as it enters Quanzhou Bay on the Taiwan Strait. The estuary separates Quanzhou's Luojiang ...

(洛江, Luojiang), river in Fujian, China; flows into Quanzhou Bay of Taiwan Strait *

Luo Scientific Reserve The Luo Scientific Reserve () is a protected area situated in the Ikela territory of Tshuapa province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The reserve covers . The reserve is in the territory of the Bongando people. A Japanese team first started ...

, a protected area in the Democratic Republic of the Congo * Luo (also Luoyi 洛邑) the ancient Zhou capital: see

Luoyang Luoyang ( zh, s=洛阳, t=洛陽, p=Luòyáng) is a city located in the confluence area of the Luo River and the Yellow River in the west of Henan province, China. Governed as a prefecture-level city, it borders the provincial capital of Zheng ...

Other uses

Luo (instrument) A gongFrom Indonesian and ; ; zh, c=鑼, p=luó; ; ; ; ; is a percussion instrument originating from Southeast Asia, and used widely in Southeast Asian and East Asian musical traditions. Gongs are made of metal and are circular and fl ...

, a type of Chinese gong *Luo, a character in the novel '' Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress'' by Dai Sijie

Luo peoples and languages

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