Shiqi dialect
| Shiqi | |
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| 石岐話 | |
| Native to | Southern China |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| ISO 639-6 | shiq |
| Glottolog | None |
| Linguasphere | 79-AAA-maf |
| Shiqi dialect | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 石岐話 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 石岐话 | ||||||||||
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The Shiqi dialect or Shekki dialect is a dialect of Yue Chinese. 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.
Shiqi has the fewest tones of any Yue dialect, perhaps a Hakka influence.
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.