COMMUNICATING THROUGH CHIAC: BRIDGING BILINGUALISM, OR JUST DAMAGING FRENCH?
July 1st, 2012
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
AT a time where concern is increasing about the transmission to new generations of regional languages across North America and worldwide, in southeastern New Brunswick, young people are embracing a hybrid dialect called 'Chiac' - and they find it "right dla fun".
The contact language, based on Acadian French, is spoken mostly amongst Francophones who reside near Moncton, Shediac, Dieppe and Memramcook (a region with more than 150,000 people), and is characterized by French syntax which integrates English vocabulary and expressions. ...
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