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Modern Spanish preceded Modern English by roughly 200 years.

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Historically, English is considered to have developed from older Germanic languages while Spanish evolved from Latin. Latin, the predecessor to Spanish, can be traced back to around 1000 BC, while Old English, the predecessor to modern English, emerged around the 5th century AD.

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