For some reason people seem to call languages "old" when they really mean "archaic" or "unchanged". It makes more sense to say that Portuguese is older than La

For some reason people seem to call languages "old" when they really mean "archaic" or "unchanged". It makes more sense to say that Portuguese is older than Latin in the sense that it has been developing for centuries longer. >Spanish has a noticeable amount of influence from Arabic, since Arabic speakers conquered the south of Spain and ruled there for a while. I don't see how this is evidence that Arabic is an older language than Spanish is, though. I don't see how this is relevant, the post talked about some modern Indian languages being "derived" from Sanskrit, which definitely implies a difference in age. >>Another way would be linguistic analysis that demonstrates that one language is derived from another