Luo
Luo or LUO may refer to:
Luo peoples and languages
- Luo peoples, an ethno-linguistic group of eastern and central Africa
- Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania or Joluo, an ethnic group in western Kenya, eastern Uganda, and northern Tanzania.
- Luoland, the tribal homeland of the group immediately above
- Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania or Joluo, an ethnic group in western Kenya, eastern Uganda, and northern Tanzania.
- Luo languages, a dozen languages spoken by the Luo peoples
- Luo language (Kenya and Tanzania) or Dholuo
- Southern Luo, a dialect cluster of Uganda and neighboring countries
- Luo language (Cameroon), a nearly extinct language of Cameroon - not associated with Luo languages above
People
- Luo (surname) (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 (born 1979), Taiwanese singer, dancer and actor
Geography
- Luo (state), a Chinese feudal state, 11th–7th centuries B.C.
- Luo River (Henan) (洛河, Luohe), a tributary of the Yellow River, flows mostly in Henan province of China
- Luo River (Shaanxi) (洛河, Luohe), river in Shaanxi, China, second largest tributary of the Wei River
- Luo River (Fujian) (洛江, Luojiang), river in Fujian, China; flows into Quanzhou Bay of Taiwan Strait
- Luo Scientific Reserve, a protected area in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Luo (also Luoyi 洛邑) the ancient Zhou capital: see Luoyang
Other uses
- Luo (instrument), a type of Chinese gong
- Luo, a character in the novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
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