Shiqi dialect
| Shiqi dialect | |
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| 石岐話 | |
| Native to | Southern China |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| ISO 639-6 | shiq |
| Glottolog | None |
| Shiqi dialect | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 石岐話 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 石岐话 | ||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Shíqíhuà |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | sek6 kei4 waa2 |
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 has the fewest number of tones of any Yue dialect, perhaps a Hakka influence.
This appears to be due to mergers: the fact that 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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