Insular Danish
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Insular Danish kept three grammatical genders, but most other Danish varieties reduced the gender system to two. By 1900, Zealand insular dialects had been reduced to two genders under the influence from the standard language, but other varieties like Funen dialect had not.
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Personal pronouns
The old Insular or Funen dialect could also use personal pronouns in certain cases, particularly to refer to animals. A classic example in traditional Funen dialect is the sentence Katti, han får unger (literally, The cat, he is having kittens). The cat is masculine in gender and so referred to as han ("he") even if it is a female cat.