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.
English language, which uses the English alphabet, came later than Spanish. Spanish developed from Latin, which was used in the Iberian Peninsula since Roman times, while English evolved from the Germanic languages spoken by tribes in what is now England.
Latin is the language from which both French and Spanish evolved. French and Spanish, along with other Romance languages, developed from Latin during the Roman Empire. It is difficult to say definitively which language came first between French and Spanish, as they both evolved alongside each other from Latin.
Portuguese evolved first from Galician-Portuguese in the 12th century in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Spanish, as a distinct language, emerged later in the 13th century in the central region of the Iberian Peninsula.
Spanish first emerged as a distinct language around the 9th century AD, evolving from Vulgar Latin spoken by the Roman conquerors in the Iberian Peninsula. This process continued through the medieval period, solidifying Spanish as the language of the region.
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