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Christoffel Van Sichem The Elder (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 (bo ...
Christoffel is a 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 Christoffel van den Berghe (he used the monogram CvB)Christoffel van den Berghe at the Netherlands Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
