french_acadian · Canada

Reference-quality preset: a phonetic matrix and a short blurb, not a full flagship build-out. See a flagship variety (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama) for situations, cultural context, sayings, and a guided path.

Canada · Moncton (Chiac)

Chiac, the heavily English-contact variety of Acadian French spoken in and around Moncton, New Brunswick -- a genuine, productive per-word blend of French and English, not code-switching between two separate grammars (Perrot 1995; King 2013). This preset is `language="mixed"` with `mixed_languages=("fr", "en")`, the same architectural shape this app already uses for Portunol/Portuñol -- a real per-word orthographic classifier (`app.services.phonology_pal._classify_word_fr_en`) routes each word to the French or English g2p engine rather than forcing the whole phrase through one language's rules, which would have either mangled every English loanword through French orthography or mangled every French word through English orthography. Segmentally, Chiac's French base is Acadian French, not Quebec French: this preset reuses `fr-ca-acadian`'s French-side matrix values (no Laurentian /t d/ affrication or long-vowel diphthongization, a historically apical rhotic, phonemic nasal vowels) rather than inventing new ones, since Chiac's documented distinctiveness is the English-contact lexicon and code-mixing pattern, not a different Acadian French phonology underneath it. One real, named limitation: the English portion renders through `phonology_en`'s neutral reference realization only. Every accent-specific English rule in `app.services.transformer` (rhoticity, /t/ flapping/glottalization, TH-fronting, and the rest) is gated strictly on `matrix.language == "en"`, so none of them fire for English-origin words inside a `"mixed"` matrix -- this is a genuine engine gap, not something this preset's field values paper over, and it applies equally to every existing Portunol/Chabacano preset's Portuguese or Spanish side when the other language's rules would have applied. Borrowed English words keep their English stress and vowel quality rather than being fully nativized to French phonology, which is itself a documented, real property of Chiac code-mixing (Perrot 1995) -- not purely an engine artifact, even though the specific accent-flavored realization is missing.