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Christoffel Bennekers
Christoffel is a Dutch language, Dutch and Afrikaans cognate of the masculine given name Christopher. Short forms include ''Chris'', ''Christie'', ''Kristof'', and ''Stoffel''. Christoffel also occurs as a patronymic surname. People with the name include: Given name *Christoffel van den Berghe (1590–), Flemish-born Dutch landscape and still life painter *Christoffel Beudeker (–1756), Dutch merchant, landowner and map collector *Christoffel Bisschop (1828–1904), Dutch genre painter and lithographer *Christoffel Brand (1797–1875), South African jurist, politician, and statesman *Christoffel Brand (Simon's Town) A host at Simon's Town, South Africa welcoming ships using it as a refreshment station. *Christoffel Brändli (born 1943), Swiss politician *Christoffel Cornelius Dednam, Christoffel Cornelius "Chris" Dednam (born 1983), South African badminton player *Christoffel van Dijck (1606–1669), Dutch printer, engraver, and type designer *Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the List of languages by total number of speakers, third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (which includes 60% of the population of Belgium). "1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." (page 153). Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition used, may be considered a sister language, spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, and evolving from Cape Dutch dialects. In South America, Dutch is the native l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
