Shiqi dialect

The Shiqi 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
石岐話
Native toSouthern China
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ISO 639-6shiq
GlottologNone
Linguasphere79-AAA-maf
Shiqi dialect
Traditional Chinese石岐話
Simplified Chinese石岐话

Shiqi has the fewest tones of any Yue dialect, perhaps a Hakka influence.

evenrisinggoingentering
˥ 55˥˩ 51˩˧ 13˨ 22⑦a ˥ 5˨ 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.

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