Shiqi dialect

The Shiqi dialect or Shekki dialect^[1][2][3] is a dialect of Yue Chinese.^[4] 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.^[5]

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

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

Shiqi has the fewest tones of any Yue dialect, perhaps a Hakka influence.^[6]

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.