Petuh
Petuh
Mixed language from the German-Danish border
Petuh (Petu) is a mixed language[1] of Flensburg, a mixture of German, Low German, Danish, and Southern Jutish spoken in Flensburg on the German–Danish border. It is High German in vocabulary (with some Danish concepts and loan translations), but it has Danish and Low Saxon grammar and syntax.[citation needed] It originated in the 19th century and was still vibrant in the 1950s, but it is now on the verge of extinction.
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Petuh is named after the partoutbillet (Danish for "season ticket",[2] from French partout "everywhere" and billet "ticket, pass") granting unlimited access to the ferries in the Flensburg Fjord. The owners of such season tickets were known as petuhtants and were mostly older women who met on the excursion boats and in the cafes along the fjord.