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<h2 id="politics">Politics</h2>
<p class="note">See also: <a href="/facts/Funen_(Folketing_constituency)/z8wxaD5o">Funen (Folketing constituency)</a></p>
<h2 id="fynsk-dialects">Fynsk dialects</h2>

<p><i>Fynsk,</i> colloquially known as Funish by local English speakers, but in English most commonly known as the Funen dialects, refers to the variations of Danish spoken on Funen and adjacent islands. 
</p><p>Locally, there can be significant variations, even within short distances, for example between neighboring towns. On the island of Funen, at least four main dialects are typically distinguished: East, North, South, and West Funen dialects, as well as sub-dialects such as the Tåsinge, Ærø, and Langeland dialects. West Funen dialects may further be divided into Northwest and Southwest Funen dialects.
</p><p>The Funen dialects belong to what is referred to as <a href="/facts/Insular_Danish/75KqlqKY">Insular Danish</a>, where the dialects have retained three <a href="/facts/Grammatical_gender/2hEshpnP">grammatical genders</a>: masculine, feminine and neuter. This is in contrast to Zealand, where, like in Swedish, <a href="/facts/Gender_in_Danish_and_Swedish/PurBRWeR">a reduction</a> to two genders has taken place, and large parts of Jutland, where, like in English, no such distinction is made.
</p><p>For instance in masculine, the indefinite article is "ei" and the ending in the definite form is "-i": <i>ei mar, mar'i, ei post, posti, ei vogn, vogni, ei ovn, ovni, ei kat, katti</i> (a man, the man, a post, the post, a wagon, the wagon, an oven, the oven, a cat, the cat). These articles and endings are usually <a href="/facts/Danish_phonology/pcTRA2ln">unstressed</a>.
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<h2 id="viking-age">Viking Age</h2>
<p>In 2018, at Munkebo Bakke in northeastern Funen, archaeologists found an exceedingly large Viking hall that dates back to c. 825 – 1,000 CE. According to the Funen museum experts, this Viking hall is larger than any found on Funen before.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
</p><p>Galgedil is a Viking Age cemetery located in northern Funen. Excavations at the site revealed 54 graves containing 59 inhumations and 2 cremation burials.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Broholm/Bg1WX7Fs">Broholm</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Den_Selvforsynende_Landsby/ob8xazkb">Den Selvforsynende Landsby</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Egeskov_Castle/Mjnoahjb">Egeskov Castle</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Fynske_Livregiment/tA2E1FcL">Fynske Livregiment</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Horne_Church/u7n4HPT1">Horne Church</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Hvedholm_Castle/MsxPddQW">Hvedholm Castle</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Korshavn%2c_Denmark/MNJbX0es">Korshavn, Denmark</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Skr%25C3%25B8belev_Gods/vbcWTd14">Skrøbelev Gods</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/The_Funen_Village/NYu5e3Dt">The Funen Village</a> an open-air museum.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Alu_(runic)/AP0TKWaE">Funen brachteate</a> in the collections of the National Museum of Denmark.</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Funen.

<ul><li><a href="http://www.visitfyn.com">Official tourist information site for Funen</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Kommuner på landkortet - Danmarks Statistik". Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2013. <a href="http://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/kommuner-paa-landkortet.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/kommuner-paa-landkortet.aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Statistikbanken". statbank.dk. Retrieved 14 March 2025. <a href="http://www.statbank.dk/BY1" target="_blank">http://www.statbank.dk/BY1</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Danish Archaeologists Stunned After Discovering a New Viking Hall". 3 July 2018. <a href="https://skjalden.com/viking-hall-munkebo-bakke-denmark/" target="_blank">https://skjalden.com/viking-hall-munkebo-bakke-denmark/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Price, T. Douglas; Prangsgaard, Kirsten; Bennike, Pia; Kanstrup, Marie; Frei, Karin Margarita (November 2014). "Galgedil: Isotopic studies of a Viking cemetery on the Danish island of Funen, AD 800–1050". Danish Journal of Archaeology. 3 (2): 129–144. doi:10.1080/21662282.2015.1056634. S2CID 130026632. <a href="https://tidsskrift.dk/dja/article/view/124926" target="_blank">https://tidsskrift.dk/dja/article/view/124926</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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