Lu, or Luren (卢人), is an extinct
Sino-Tibetan
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ...
language of
Guizhou
Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to t ...
, China. The Luren language may have been extinct since the 1960s.
[Guizhou Province Gazetteer: Ethnic Gazetteer ��州省志. 民族志(2002). Guiyang: Guizhou Ethnic Publishing House ��州民族出版社]
Luren is closely related to
Caijia and
Longjia.
[Hölzl, Andreas. 2021]
Longjia (China) - Language Contexts
''Language Documentation and Description'' 20, 13-34. However, the classification of these languages within Sino-Tibetan is uncertain. Zhengzhang (2010) suggests that
Caijia and
Bai form a
Greater Bai branch,
[Zhèngzhāng Shàngfāng ��张尚芳 2010. Càijiāhuà Báiyǔ guānxì jí cígēn bǐjiào ��家话白语关系及词根比较 In Pān Wǔyún and Shěn Zhōngwěi ��悟云、沈钟伟(eds.). Yánjūzhī Lè, The Joy of Research ��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.] while
Sagart argues that Caijia and
Waxiang
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represent an early split from
Old Chinese
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.
[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.
In
Dafang County
Dafang (), called Dading () until 1958, is a county of Guizhou
Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the ...
,
Guizhou
Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to t ...
, 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
*
Greater Bai comparative vocabulary list (Wiktionary)
References
Further reading
*Guizhou provincial ethnic classification commission, linguistic division
��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
��州省民族识别工作队 1984. ''Report on ethnic classification issues of the Nanlong people (Nanjing-Longjia)''
��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
��卫峰 2011. ''History of the Bai people of Guizhou''
��州白族史略 Yinchuan, China: Ningxia People's Press
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*Hölzl, Andreas.
The Lu(ren) language of Guizhou, China'. 9th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC9). 2021.05.20-21.
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