Shiqi dialect
Dialect of Cantonese
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The Shiqi dialect or Shekki dialect[1][2][3] is a dialect of Yue Chinese.[4] It is spoken by roughly 160,000 people in Zhongshan, Guangdong's Shiqi urban district. It differs slightly from Standard Cantonese, mainly in its pronunciation and lexicon.[5]
| Shiqi | |
|---|---|
| 石岐話 | |
| Native to | Southern China |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| ISO 639-6 | shiq |
| Glottolog | None |
| Linguasphere | 79-AAA-maf |
| Shiqi dialect | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese | 石岐話 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 石岐话 | ||||||||||
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Shiqi has the fewest tones of any Yue dialect, perhaps a Hakka influence.[6]
even rising going entering ① ˥ 55 ② ˥˩ 51 ③ ˩˧ 13 ⑤ ˨ 22 ⑦a ˥ 5 ⑧ ˨ 2
This appears to be due to mergers: the fact that the entering tone has split oddly suggests that it has split twice, as in Cantonese and Taishanese, but that tone ⑦b subsequently merged with ⑧.
