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Jodocus Van Lodenstein
Jodocus (from Breton ''Iodoc'', Latin ''Judocus''), sometimes ''Josse'', ''Joos'', ''Joost'', ''Joest'', ''Jost'', or ''Jobst'' is a given name and a family name. Other names such as Jocelyn, Jocelyne, Josselin, Josseline, or also Josquin and Jospin derived from it. The given name Jodocus or its form Josse was popular in the Middle Ages in England. People * Saint Judoc * Jobst of Moravia * Jodocus Badius * Jodocus Hondius * Joos de Damhouder Fiction * Alfred Jodocus Kwak, a Dutch animated television series Places * Josse, municipality in Landes, France * Jost Van Dyke one of the British Virgin Islands * Saint-Josse also called Saint-Josse-sur-Mer, municipality in Pas-de-Calais, France * Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in French, Sint-Joost-ten-Node in Dutch, municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. * Sint Joost, small village in Limburg, the Netherlands See also *Jösse Hundred - a district of Värmland in Sweden *Jösse Car Jösse Car was a sports car manufact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breton Language
Breton (, ; or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still widely in use on the European mainland, albeit as a member of the insular branch instead of the continental grouping. Breton was brought from Great Britain to Armorica (the ancient name for the coastal region that includes the Brittany peninsula) by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages, making it an Insular Celtic language. Breton is most closely related to Cornish, another Southwestern Brittonic language. Welsh and the extinct Cumbric, both Western Brittonic languages, are more distantly related. Having declined from more than one million speakers around 1950 to about 200,000 in the first decade of the 21st century, Breton is classified as "severely endangered" by the UNESCO '' Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger''. However, the number of children attending bilingual classes rose 33 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
