Whenever I read of this particular language I think of all the other small dialects that could be considered separate languages but are not. E.g. in the much sm

Whenever I read of this particular language I think of all the other small dialects that could be considered separate languages but are not. E.g. in the much smaller country of Denmark there are a lot of dialects that are not mutually intelligible. A person from the very north of Jutland would probably have a hard time understanding someone from the remote island of Bornholm. There are dialects with two and three genders without considering these to be separate languages: https://dialekt.ku.dk/dialektkort/#map=2 https://dialekt.ku.dk/dialektkort/#map=2 (in Danish)