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{{Short description|Extinct Sino-Tibetan language of Guizhou, southwestern China}}

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|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.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].WEB,222.210.17.136/mzwz/news/21/z_21_46506.html,222.210.17.136/mzwz/news/21/z_21_46506.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20141017095638222.210.17.136/mzwz/news/21/z_21_46506.html,">web.archive.org/web/20141017095638222.210.17.136/mzwz/news/21/z_21_46506.html, dead, 2014-10-17, 白族家园-讲义寨, 222.210.17.136, 2011-01-28, 2013-11-27, 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 Macro-Bai branch,Zhèngzhāng Shàngfāng [郑张尚芳]. 2010. Càijiāhuà BáiyÇ” guānxì jí cígÄ“n bǐjiào [蔡家话白语关系及词根比较]. In Pān WÇ”yún and ShÄ›n ZhōngwÄ›i [潘悟云、沈钟伟] (eds.). YánjÅ«zhÄ« 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. while Sagart argues that Caijia and Waxiang represent an early split from Old Chinese.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, 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

• (Wiktionary:Appendix:Macro-Bai comparative vocabulary list|Macro-Bai comparative vocabulary list) (Wiktionary)

References

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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]. {{ISBN|978-7-227-04678-3}}
• 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.)

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