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Wim Rip
Wim is a Dutch language, Dutch masculine given name or a shortened form of Willem and may refer to: * Wim Anderiesen (1903–1944), Dutch footballer * Wim Aantjes (1923–2015), Dutch politician * Wim Arras (born 1964), Flemish Belgian cyclist * Wim Blockmans (born 1945), Flemish Belgian Professor of Medieval History at Leiden University * Wim Boost (1918–2005), Dutch cartoonist * Wim Boissevain (1927–2023), Australian painter of Dutch descent * Wim Botha (born 1974), South African contemporary artist * Wim Cohen (1923–2000), Dutch mathematician * Wim Crouwel (1928–2019), Dutch graphic designer and typographer * Wim Crusio (born 1954), Dutch behavioral neurogeneticist * Wim De Coninck (born 1959), retired Flemish Belgian footballer * Wim De Decker (born 1982), Flemish Belgian football player * Wim De Vocht (born 1982), Flemish Belgian professional road bicycle racer * Wim Deetman (born 1945), Dutch politician and statesman * Wim Delvoye (born 1965), Flemish Belgian conceptu ... [...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] |
