Shiqi dialect
Shiqi | |
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石岐話 | |
Native to | Southern China |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
ISO 639-6 | shiq |
Glottolog | None |
Linguasphere | 79-AAA-maf |
Shiqi dialect | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Shíqíhuà |
Yue: Cantonese | |
Jyutping | sek6 kei4 waa2 |
The Shiqi dialect is a dialect of
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
- 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.