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Van Der Heide
Van der Heide is a Dutch language, Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the heath". The surnames Van der Heijden and Verheijen have the same origin. People with this surname include: * Henning van der Heide (ca. 1460 - 1521), German late Gothic sculptor * Jan van der Heide (died 1959), Dutch tennis player * Joop van der Heide (1917-1980), Dutch footballer * Petra van der Heide (born 1971), Dutch harpist * Rogier van der Heide (born 1970), Dutch lighting designer * Sandor van der Heide (born 1978), Dutch footballer * Willy van der Heide, pseudonym of Willem van den Hout (1915-1985), Dutch children's writer ;Van der Heiden * Abraham Heidanus, Abraham van der Heiden (1597-1678), Dutch Calvinist minister and controversialist * Jan van der Heiden (1637-1712), Dutch painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and inventor * Mischa van der Heiden (born 1971), Dutch DJ ;Van Heiden * Frederick Maurice van Heiden (1821–1900), Russian governor of Finland, son of Lodewijk * Lodewijk van Heiden (1772– ... [...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] |
