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Nicolaas Willingh
Nicolaas is the Dutch equivalent of the masculine given name Nicholas. Before the 19th century the name was also written Nicolaes, while Nikolaas is an uncommon variant spelling. Most people with the name use a short form in daily life, like ''Claas'', '' Claes'', ''Klaas'', ''Nico'', and ''Niek''. Notable people with the name Nicolaas or Nikolaas include: Academics *Nicolaas Bidloo (1673–1735), Dutch personal physician to Tsar Peter the Great *Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–2017), Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate * Nicolaas Bom (born 1937), Dutch electrical engineer * Nicolaas H. J. van den Boogaard (1938–1982), Dutch medievalist scholar *Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918–2012), Dutch mathematician *Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734–1793), Dutch botanist *Nicolaas Duneas (born c. 1972), South African biotech entrepreneur * Nicolaas Everaerts (1461–1532), Dutch jurist *Nicolaas Hartsoeker (1656–1725), Dutch mathematician, physicist, and microscopist *Nicolaas Heinsi ... [...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] |
