'Françaises, Français': Why the French language need not be so sexist

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35. The Scandinavian situation seems complicated

Danish (Danish has four gendered pronouns, but only two grammatical genders in the sense of noun classes.)

Norwegian - the three-gender system is widely used throughout the country, except in the Bergen dialect (some sociolects in Oslo lack it as well), where the dialect allows feminine nouns to be given the corresponding masculine inflections or do not use the feminine gender at all.

Swedish - as in Dutch, the masculine and the feminine have merged into a common gender in standard Swedish. But many dialects, mainly in Dalecarlia, Ostrobothnia (Finland) and northern Sweden, have preserved three genders in spoken language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_type_of_grammatical_genders

While one might regard them as three dialects of the same language, they also seem to have some definite regional differences within at least Norway and Sweden. These are probably more evident in the spoken language than in the "standard" language of government and media.

However, Norway seems to have two written variants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nynorsk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokm%C3%A5l

One of my great grandfathers was Swedish. Several years ago I inherited his Bible, which turned out to be in Danish!