Acadian French

French variety of Maritime eastern Canada

dialect

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.