| Shiqi | |
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| 石岐話 | |
| Native to | SouthernChina |
| 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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TheShiqi dialect orShekki dialect[1][2][3] is a dialect ofYue Chinese.[4] It is spoken by roughly 160,000 people inZhongshan,Guangdong'sShiqi urban district. It differs slightly fromStandard Cantonese, mainly in its pronunciation and lexicon.[5]
Shiqi has the fewesttones of any Yue dialect, perhaps aHakka influence.[6]
| even | rising | going | entering | ||
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| ①˥ 55 | ②˥˩ 51 | ③˩˧ 13 | ⑤˨ 22 | ⑦a˥ 5 | ⑧˨ 2 |
This appears to be due to mergers: the fact that theentering tone has split oddly suggests that it has split twice, as in Cantonese andTaishanese, but that tone ⑦b subsequently merged with ⑧.
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