Shiqi dialect

Sekkei dialect
石岐話
Native to Southern China
Native speakers
 (no estimate available)
Sino-Tibetan

  • Chinese

    • Yue
      • Yuehai
        • Zhongshan
          • Sekkei dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
ISO 639-6 shiq
Glottolog None
Shiqi dialect
Traditional Chinese 石岐話
Simplified Chinese 石岐话

Sekkei dialect is a dialect of Yue Chinese.[1] It is spoken by roughly 160,000 people in Zhongshan, Guangdong's Shekki urban district. It differs slightly from Standard Cantonese, mainly in its pronunciation and lexicon.[2]

Shekki has the smallest number of tones of any Yue dialect, perhaps a Hakka influence (Lee 1993). They are:

evenrisinggoingentering
① ˥ 55 ② ˥˩ 51 ③ ˩˧ 13 ⑤ ˨ 22 ⑦a ˥ 5 ⑧ ˨ 2

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.

References

  1. ↑ Lin Baisong/林柏松 (1997). "石岐方音". In Huang Jiajiao/黃家敎. 汉语方言论集. Beijing Language and Culture University Publishing House. ISBN 7-5619-0486-X.
  2. ↑ "(方言文化)合奏一曲方言交响乐". Nanfang Daily. 2005-11-17. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-05-22.