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One can't really compare the ages of languages. In this case there are various problems:
- Latin is not a 'living' language and has changed relatively little over the centuries - because it's not acquired naturally as a mother tongue, but has to be learned consciously.
- The Germanic languages, on the other hand, have undergone immense changes since the fall of the Roman Empire in Western Europe. At the time when Rome fell, many of the Germanic tribes were speaking West Germanic or Gothic or an early forerunner of the Scandinavian languages.
Latin has, to a significant extent, remained almost frozen, while other languages have not. If you want a simple answer, I suppose the answer is no, but one needs to bear in mind the background.
Modern German is much younger than Latin, but one cannot really be sure if Old High German (the first stage of German as a separate language from common West Germanic) is younger or older than Latin since they are very old languages wich already evolved into modern languages, namely the modern German language and the Romance languages.
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No, Latin is older than German. Latin originated in ancient Rome around the 6th century BCE, while German emerged much later, around the 1st century CE in the region that is now Germany.
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