Dutch Language
Dutch (Nederlands ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 24 million people as a first language and 5 million people as a second language, constituting the majority of people in the Netherlands (where it is the sole official language countrywide) and Belgium (as one of three official languages). It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives English and German. Outside the Low Countries, it is the native language of the majority of the population of Suriname where it also holds an official status, as it does in Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, which …
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UAP: University of Alberta Press · 13 April 2023 English
"The contributors to National Literature in Multinational States discuss the multiplicity and even incoherence of the idea of the nation, which presumes that the audience, the language, the territory, and …
D . Morr is & A lbe rt Br a z xxv of Dutch-language literary representations of a Caribbean transnational … of its nation-state parts. The writers and Dutch-language works analyzed by Hambuch reveal how the Dutch …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 January 2022 English
In the wake of the devastating First World War, leaders of the victorious powers reconfigured the European continent, resulting in new understandings of nation, state, and citizenship. Religious identity, symbols, …
translation of their 2015 study written in the Dutch language. Karl- Joseph Hummel and Christoph Kösters’s …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 21 July 2021 English
Fiscal Federalism in Multinational States brings together scholars of nationalism and federalism in a groundbreaking analysis of the connections between nationalist claims and fiscal debates within plurinational states.
focused on the defence and promotion of the Dutch language in Belgium. In the context of a state whose … provided the necessary safeguards for the Dutch language and Flemish culture in Belgium. In this context …
PAL: Palimpsest Press · 15 October 2020 English
alfabet / alphabet is the record of Sadiqa de Meijer?s transition from speaking Dutch to English. Exploring questions of identity, landscape, family, and translation, the essays navigate the shifting cultural …
Pitches and Types of Sounds Found in the Dutch Language.” The screen is large, and my face enormous … Nederlands, so utterly inti- mate with the Dutch language and landscape, that I find it resistant to …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 25 August 2020 English
Who speaks in Leonard Cohen's oeuvre? By identifying the many guises in which Cohen presents himself to his audience, Francis Mus seeks to formulate an answer to this question. The …
demonen van Leonard Cohen. Translated from the Dutch language. www.lannoo.com. © University of Ottawa Press … disguised as a trans- lation. In February 2015, a Dutch-language version was published, aimed at a general …
Community Foundation Canada · 11 September 2018 English
What knowledge and skills do we LifeLong LeaRning possess, and how do we learn them? tWo foCus items peR impaCt aRea: How the Community Foundation Helps details how many of …
an Indigenous French are German, Spanish, Dutch, language. The most common is Blackfoot, Japanese, Nepali …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 8 June 2018 English
Canadian readers have enjoyed their own graphic satire since colonial times and Canadian artists have thrived as they took aim at the central issues and figures of their age. Graphic …
Great Britain in its armed conflict with the Dutch-language Boer communities in South Africa, the Montreal …
desLibris · 6 June 2016 English
in: 1) the setting, 2) the characters, 3) the Dutch language of the script, 4) the Dutch nationality of …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 2016 English
The Battle of Passchendaele has come to epitomize the mud and blood of the First World War. Passchendaele is perhaps one of the most iconic campaigns of the First World …
Ypres (now properly ‘leper’, its official Dutch-language name, although during the war it was known …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 16 July 2015 English
As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels of the British Empire hand-picked teachers from across the Commonwealth to teach the …
schools in order to preserve the use of the Dutch language and to protect its cultural and reli- gious …
