Chiac (or Chiak, Chi’aq), is a Creole variety of Acadian French spoken mostly in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada.[1][2][3] Chiac is often characterized and distinguished from other forms of Acadian French by its borrowings from English, it also has root words from the Eastern Algonquian languages. The word "Chiac" can also sometimes be used to describe an ethnic Acadian of rural southeastern New Brunswick.

History

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Chiac originated in the community of specific ethnic Acadians, known as "Chiacs or Chiaks",[4] living on the rural southeast coast of New Brunswick. Chiac (or Chiak) is one of the varieties of the Acadian-French language, which includes some root words from the Miꞌkmaq/Micmac language (Algonquian languages),[4] and also includes some words borrowed from the surrounding English.

While some believe that Chiac dates back as far as the 17th or 18th century, others believe it developed in the 20th century, in reaction to the dominance of English-language media in Canada, the lack of French-language primary and secondary education, the increased urbanization of Moncton, and contact with the dominant Anglophone community in the area. The origin of the word "Chiac" is not known; some speculate that it is an alteration of "Shediac" or "Es-ed-ei-ik".

In the arts

Acadian writers, poets and musicians such as Lisa LeBlanc, Radio Radio,[5][6][7] France Daigle, Fayo,[8][9] Cayouche, Les Hay Babies, 1755 and many others have produced works in Chiac.

Chiac is also featured in Acadieman, a comedy about "The world's first Acadian Superhero" by Dano Leblanc.[10]

See also

• Acadian French
• Algic languages
• Assimilation
• Michif
• Wabanaki
• Louisiana Creole
• Greater Shediac
• Chiac (Wiktionary)
• Acadian people
• Miꞌkmaq
• Algonquian languages
• Caló
• Gullah language

References

Further reading

• King, Ruth. "Overview and Evaluation of Acadie's joual," in Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the Work of Gillian Sankoff edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy (2008) pp 137ff
• Chiac: an example of dialect change and language transfer in Acadian French. National Library of Canada, 1987.
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External links

• "Et si on parlait chiac ? (How about speaking Chiac?)". 1998-11-04. Archived from the original on 2008-02-27. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
• The Chiac verb particle construction – A linguistics paper (beginning on page 56 of the pdf document) examining certain features of Chiac grammar.

На других языках

[fr] Chiac

[ru] Шиак