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Loos (surname)
Loos is a Dutch and Low German surname. It can be of toponymic, patronymic or descriptive origin. In the Low Countries, ''Lo''/''Loos'' was a short form of Lodewijk (akin to Louisbr>People with this surname include: Art * Adolf Loos (1870–1933), Austrian architect * Anita Loos (1888–1981), American screen writer and author * Anna Loos (born 1970), German actress and singer * Charles Loos (born 1951), Belgian jazz pianist and composer * Friedrich Loos (1797–1890), Austrian painter, etcher and lithographer * Lina Loos (1882–1950), Austrian actress and writer * Mary Loos (1910–2004), American actress * Theodor Loos (1883–1954), German actor Sports * Dave Loos (born 1947), American basketball coach and athletic director * Eddie Loos (1893–1950), American golfer * Georg Loos (1943–2016), German racing driver * Josef Loos (1888–1955), Czech ice hockey player * Ludo Loos (1955–2019), Belgian road bicycle racer * Michelle Loos, New Zealand footballer * Pete Lo ... [...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] |
