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