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Geurts (other)
Geurts is a Dutch language, Dutch patronymic surname. The given name ''Geurt'' may be a variant of Geert from Gerard, or a short form of Govert or Godert (Godard (other), Godard). at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands Notable people with the surname include: *Carla Geurts (born 1971), Dutch swimmer *Darryl Geurts (born 1994), German football player *Jaco Geurts (born 1970), Dutch politician *James Geurts (born c.1966), American Assistant Secretary of the Navy *Jean-Richard Geurts (born 1957), Belgian comics artist known as "Janry" *Joop Geurts (1923–2009), Dutch baseball player *Joseph Geurts (1939–2012), Belgian racing cyclist *Loes Geurts (born 1986), Dutch football player *Mascha Geurts (born 1973), Dutch water polo player *Rob Geurts (born 1959), Dutch bobsledder *Tom Geurts (born 1964), Dutch economist *Toon Geurts (1932–201 ... [...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] |
