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 is a dialect of Yue Chinese.[1] 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.[2]
Shiqi has the fewest tones of any Yue dialect, perhaps a Hakka influence.[3]
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 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.