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Nienke Sikkema
Nienke is Dutch feminine given name. It originated as a diminutive of ''Nine'', a Frisian short form of Catharina Catharina is a feminine given name, the Dutch and Swedish spelling of the name Catherine. In the Netherlands, people use a great number of short forms in daily life, including ''Carine'', ''Catelijne'', ''Cato'', ''Ina'', ''Ineke'', ''Kaat'', ''Kaat .... at the Meertens Institute database of given names in the Netherlands. People with the name include: * Nienke van Hichtum (1860–1939), Dutch children's author * Nienke Hommes (born 1977), D ... [...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] |
West Frisian Language
West Frisian, or simply Frisian ( fy, link=no, Frysk or ; nl, Fries , also ), is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland () in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisian ancestry. It is the most widely spoken of the Frisian languages. In the study of the evolution of English, West Frisian is notable as being the most closely related foreign tongue to the various dialects of Old English spoken across the Heptarchy, these being part of the Anglo-Frisian branch of the West Germanic family. Name The name "West Frisian" is only used outside the Netherlands, to distinguish this language from the closely related Frisian languages of Saterland Frisian and North Frisian spoken in Germany. Within the Netherlands, however, "West Frisian" refers to the West Frisian dialect of the Dutch language while the West Frisian language is almost always just called "Frisian" (in Dutch: for the Frisian language and for the Dutch dialect). The unam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharina
Catharina is a feminine given name, the Dutch and Swedish spelling of the name Catherine. In the Netherlands, people use a great number of short forms in daily life, including ''Carine'', ''Catelijne'', ''Cato'', ''Ina'', ''Ineke'', ''Kaat'', ''Kaatje'', ''Karen'', ''Karin'', ''Katja'', ''Katrien'', ''Katrijn'', ''Kitty'', ''Nienke'', ''Rina'', ''Tineke'', ''Tiny'', ''Toos'', ''Trijn'', ''Trijntje'', and many others. People with the name include: Academics, science * Catharina C.J.H. "Catrien" Bijleveld (born 1958), Dutch criminologist *Catharina Halkes (1920–2011), Dutch theologian and feminist * Catharina Jantina "Catherine" de Jong (born 1956), Dutch anesthesiologist, drug rehab physician and intensivist * Catharina Geertruida "Catrien" Santing (born 1958), Dutch medievalist * Catharina Stroppel (born 1971), German mathematician * A.P. Catharina "Catharine" van Tussenbroek (1852–1925), Dutch physician and feminist Arts * Catharina Ahlgren (1734–c. 1800), Swedish feminist w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meertens Institute
The Meertens Institute (Dutch ''Meertens Instituut'') in Amsterdam is a research institute for Dutch language and culture within the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (''Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen'' or KNAW). Its two departments are ''Dutch ethnology'', focusing on indigenous and exotic cultures in the Netherlands and their interaction, and ''Variation'', focusing on structural, dialectal, and sociolinguistic research on language variation within the Netherlands, with an emphasis on grammar and onomastic variety. History The institute began in 1930 as a Dialect Office; the Folklore office was added in 1940, and Onomastics Office in 1948. These three bureaus came under the umbrella of the Central Commission for Dutch Social Research. The Secretary of the three bureaus, P.J. Meertens, was the first director and retired in 1965. The institute was renamed ''PJ Meertens Institute'' in 1979. In 1998 it was renamed as simply the Meertens Institut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nienke Van Hichtum
Sjoukje Maria Diderika Troelstra-Bokma de Boer (13 February 1860 – 9 January 1939), better known under her pseudonym Nienke van Hichtum, was a well-known Frisian Dutch children's author and translator. From 1888 to 1904, she was married to the socialist leader Pieter Jelles Troelstra. The couple had two children: a daughter, Dieuwke and a son, Jelle. Her son Jelle Troelstra (1891–1979) was a sculptor and graphic designer. She was born in Nes to Albertus Minderts Bokma de Boer and Dieuwke Jans Klaasesz. , the fifth and last daughter of a preacher. Van Hichtum wrote books and stories in both West Frisian (her native language) and Dutch. The biennial Dutch literary award Nienke van Hichtum-prijs The Nienke van Hichtum-prijs (Dutch for Nienke van Hichtum Prize) is a biennial Dutch literary award for children's literature awarded by the Jan Campert-Stichting. The award is named after children's author Nienke van Hichtum and was first awar ... is named after her. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nienke Hommes
Nienke Hommes (; born 20 February 1977 in Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...) is a Dutch rower. References * * 1977 births Living people Dutch female rowers Sportspeople from Haarlem Rowers from North Holland Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Olympic rowers for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in rowing World Rowing Championships medalists for the Netherlands Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nienke Kingma
Nienke Kingma (; born 12 February 1982 in Driebergen) is a rower from the Netherlands. Kingma took part in the World Championships of 2006 in the fours finishing fifth in Eton. A year later at the World Championships in Munich she was part of the double sculls and became 9th. She qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Femke Dekker, Annemiek de Haan, Roline Repelaer van Driel, Annemarieke van Rumpt, Sarah Siegelaar, Marlies Smulders, Helen Tanger and cox Ester Workel. This team went on to win the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing just under two seconds behind the winning US team. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed for the Dutch team with Chantal Achterberg, Sytske de Groot, Roline Repelaer van Driel, Claudia Belderbos, Carline Bouw, Jacobine Veenhoven and cox Anne Schellekens Anne Schellekens (born 18 April 1986, in Rotterdam) is a Dutch female rower. She won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nienke Kremers
Nienke Kremers (; born 21 February 1985 in Eindhoven, North Brabant) is a Dutch field hockey player, who plays as a midfielder for Dutch club HC Den Bosch Hockeyclub 's-Hertogenbosch, also known as Den Bosch, is a Dutch field hockey club based in 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant. It was founded on 14 July 1937. The first teams (men and women) both compete on the highest level of the Dutch field hocke .... She also plays for the Netherlands national team and she was part of the Dutch squad that became 2007 Champions Trophy winner. References 1985 births Living people Dutch female field hockey players Sportspeople from Eindhoven Field hockey players from North Brabant HC Den Bosch players 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
