Luren language

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

{{Infobox language

| name = Lu

| altname = Luren

| states = China

| region = Guizhou

| ethnicity = Luren

| extinct = 1960s?

| ref =

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = Sinitic?

| fam3 = Macro-Bai?

| fam4 = Cai–LongGuizhou 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.

| fam5 = Longjia–Luren?{{Cite web |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/long1422 |title=Glottolog 4.8 - Longjia-Luren |date=2023-07-10 |access-date=2023-09-06 |website=Glottolog |last=Hammarström |first=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230913161050/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/long1422 |archive-date=2023-09-13 |url-status=live |publisher=Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |author-link=Harald Hammarström |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |publication-place=Leipzig |doi=10.5281/zenodo.7398962 |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |author-link3=Martin Haspelmath |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian |doi-access=free}}

| 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].{{cite web|url=http://222.210.17.136/mzwz/news/21/z_21_46506.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017095638/http://222.210.17.136/mzwz/news/21/z_21_46506.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-10-17 |title=白族家园-讲义寨 |publisher=222.210.17.136 |date=2011-01-28 |access-date=2013-11-27 }}

Luren is closely related to Caijia and Longjia.Hölzl, Andreas. 2021. [http://www.elpublishing.org/docs/1/20/ldd20_02.pdf 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 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. while Sagart argues that Caijia and Waxiang represent an early split from Old Chinese.Sagart, Laurent. 2011. [https://www.academia.edu/19534510/Chinese_dialects_classified_on_shared_innovations 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).