Chiac

Chiac (also spelled Chiak/Chi'ak/Shiak/Chiawk and Chiaw/Chi'aw), is both a dialect and a people who originated and resides in rural southeastern New Brunswick, Canada (also known as Siknikt). They're descendant from both from the Acadians and the Wabanaki indigenous peoples.

The Chiac dialect is a mixture of Acadian French and the indigenous Eastern Algonquian Languages, spoken by the Chiac Metis (or Chi'aw). Since the 1950s and 60s, contact with the dominant Anglophone community in the area, the Chiac dialect, to some degree has been influenced and corrupted by English.

The Chiac is a people and also a dialect.