Perkerdansk
Perkerdansk or Immigrant Danish is a multi-ethnolect spoken in Denmark, a variety of Danish associated primarily with youths of Middle Eastern ethnic background. It is a contact variety that includes features of Danish as well as Arabic, Turkish, English and other immigrant languages. Particularly common in urban areas with high densities of immigrant populations, its features have also spread to general youth language in Denmark.
The following is an example of Danish spoken by two youths in Copenhagen. Speaker A speaks Berber as a first language and speaker B's first language is Kurdish. Nonetheless their Danish includes elements of Arabic and Turkish.
Other non-standard features are grammatical and syntactical, such as lack of word order inversion in subordinate clauses ; Standard Danish is a, with an exception for subordinate clauses. Phonetic features include loss of stød in some words, and an isochronic shift from stress-timedness to syllable-timedness.
Danish poet Yahya Hassan made creative use of elements of immigrant Danish in his work.
