Shiqi dialect

Shiqi dialect
Shiqi dialect
Traditional Chinese	石岐話
Simplified Chinese	石岐话
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Shíqíhuà
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	sek6 kei4 waa2

Shiqi
Shiqi
石岐話
Native to	Southern China
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Yue Yuehai Zhongshan Shiqi; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
ISO 639-6	shiq
Glottolog	None
Linguasphere	79-AAA-maf

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
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.

References

^ Lin, Baisong 林柏松 (1997). "Shíqí fāngyīn" 石岐方音. In Huang, Jiajiao 黃家敎 (ed.). Hànyǔ fāngyán lùnjí 汉语方言论集 (in Chinese). Beijing: Beijing yuyan wenhua daxue chubanshe. ISBN 7-5619-0486-X.
^ "(Fāngyán wénhuà) hézòu yī qū fāngyán jiāoxiǎngyuè" (方言文化)合奏一曲方言交响乐. Nánfāng bàoyè 南方报业 (in Chinese). November 17, 2005. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved May 22, 2007.
^ Lee, Gina Maureen (1993). Comparative, Diachronic and Experimental Perspectives on the Interaction Between Tone and the Vowel in Standard Cantonese (PDF) (PhD thesis). The Ohio State University. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 21, 2012.