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Since Belgium has three national languages — Dutch, French and German — Belgian names are similar to those in the neighbouring countries: the Netherlands, France and Germany. Place names (regions, towns, villages, hamlets) with a particle meaning "from" (de in French, del in Walloon, or van in Dutch) are the most numerous. An uncapitalised ...
V. Van Acker; Van Baer; Van Belleghem; Van Daele; Van Damme (disambiguation) Van de Vijver; Van de Walle; Van de Wiele; Van den Abeele; Van Den Berghe; Van den Bossche
Dutch family names were not required until 1811 when emperor Napoleon annexed the Netherlands; [1] prior to 1811, the use of patronymics was much more common. In Dutch linguistics , many names use certain qualifying words (prepositions) which are positioned between a person's given name and their surname .
This is a list of names of Belgian places in other languages. Flanders. Flemish Region: Dutch West Flemish Limburgish German French Picard Walloon; Aalst: Oalst: Aalst:
The history of Wallonia, from prehistoric times to the present day, is that of a territory which, since 1970, has approximately coincided with the territory of Wallonia, a federated component of Belgium, which also includes the smaller German-speaking Community of Belgium (73,000 inhabitants). Wallonia is the name colloquially given to the ...
For the specific epithet, the names can be converted into either adjectival form (adding -nus (m.), -na (f.), -num (n.) according to the gender of the genus name) or the genitive of the Latinised name. [3] Adlercreutzia – H. Adlercreutz, a Finnish professor; Afifella – S. Afif, a British philosopher and painter
This is a guideline on including alternate languages than the local name for Belgium-related articles. The English name (unless archaic) should take precedence over all other names. If there is no English name (which is most cases) use the official local name first. If there is a name for this place in the other national language (i.e. Dutch or ...
Belgian people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent (1 C, 4 P) Belgian people of Brazilian descent (1 C, 12 P) Belgian people of British descent (3 C, 10 P)