South Africa, New York.
Flanders is the Northern, Dutch speaking part of Belgium. Though, with the many differences between Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch, we usually say the Belgians speak Flemmish.
there were all kinds of diversity. there were puritans, separatists, Jews, dutch, many different diverse colonies. many people came from Europe and other scame for religious freedom
Dutch colonies were a melting pot for religions in the 1600s. People fled to the colonies from overseas to escape religious persecution. Many people and faiths followed. The colonies saw the arrival of Irish, Scots, Dutch and French. The colonies had many denominations, including Protestants, Catholics, Calvinists and Humanists.
Many of the settlers that settled in the middle colonies were Dutch people from the Netherlands or Sweden. There were also German and Irish immigrants who settled in the middle colonies.
Generally, most people of Dutch ancestry are called Afrikaners, derived from the language that they speak (Afrikaans) although this is not the only group descended from Dutch ancestry, as many English-speaking South Africans may also have Dutch ancestry.To complicate it, the immigrants during the Dutch occupation of the Cape included large numbers of people of north German extraction, many French and a scattering of Swiss, Scandinavians and other Europeans. All of these gradually assumed the dominant Dutch language and are now part of South Africa's Afrikaans speaking (and English speaking) population, but were not of Dutch ancestry.
how many dutch people live in nz
Aruba Belgium Curaçao Netherlands Sint Maarten Suriname Luxembourg Dutch is also a former colonial language of Indonesia, and many older people there can speak it. Afrikaans, spoken in South Africa, is very similar to dutch, and many Afrikaans speakers can understand Dutch.
No, the dutch are the people that live in the Netherlands. Among the dutch there are many races.
The Amish originated in German speaking portions of Switzerland, and in Germany. Because the German word for "German" is "deutsch," many English-speaking Americans misheard or mispronounced the word when the Amish spoke it and called them "Dutch." Thus the ongoing confusion between German and Dutch origins for this group.
Pymouth was one of the many English colonies that settled in the North America's and in my opinion, the best French and Dutch colony ever.
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