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Chiac (or Chiak, Chi’aq), is a patois of Acadian French spoken mostly in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. [1] 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.
See also Chiac, a variety with strong English influence, and St. Marys Bay French, a distinct variety of Acadian French spoken around Clare, Tusket, Nova Scotia and also Moncton, New Brunswick. Palatalization
English: This video was recorded by Noah Sullivan in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, where he, Jacques, and Yvette live. Chiac is spoken by an unknown number of people, primarily in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, and by smaller communities through the North American region of New England.
Chiac, also spoken in the Moncton area, is occasionally classified as a dialect of French significantly influenced by English, and at other times, as a distinct language. Populations that have undergone Anglicization typically employ American English or maritime English.
The play is a collection of monologues, written in chiac, a type of Acadian French. [1] It has since been translated into English by Luis de Céspedes in 1984, and most recently by Wayne Grady in 2007, based on the second enlarged edition published in 1974 by Les Éditions Lemeac.
Chia seed measuring 2 mm Chia seeds. Typically, chia seeds are small flattened ovoids measuring on average 2.1 mm × 1.3 mm × 0.8 mm (0.08 in × 0.05 in × 0.03 in), with an average weight of 1.3 mg per seed. [2]
Shediac (official in both languages; Shédiac is colloquial French) is a heavily Acadian town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.The town is home to the famous Parlee Beach and is known as the "Lobster Capital of the World".
French is an administrative language and is commonly but unofficially used in the Maghreb states, Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.As of 2023, an estimated 350 million African people spread across 34 African countries can speak French either as a first or second language, mostly as a secondary language, making Africa the continent with the most French speakers in the world. [2]