Chiac
Sign in to savethumb|An immigrant couple living in Massachusetts, [[United States, speaking a version of Chiac.]] Chiac (or Chiak, Chi’aq) is a patois of Acadian French spoken mostly in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. Chiac is frequently characterized and distinguished from other forms of Acadian French by its borrowings from English and is thus often mistakenly considered a form of Franglais.
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thumb|An immigrant couple living in Massachusetts, [[United States, speaking a version of Chiac.]] Chiac (or Chiak, Chi’aq) is a patois of Acadian French spoken mostly in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. Chiac is frequently characterized and distinguished from other forms of Acadian French by its borrowings from English and is thus often mistakenly considered a form of Franglais.
The word "Chiac" can also sometimes be used to refer to ethnic Acadians of rural southeastern New Brunswick, who are not considered French Canadian historically and ethnically because of their separate and distinctive history. They are considered ethnically as "Chiac-Acadian" or simply "Chiac".