Descends from traces a language back to the earlier language it grew out of. Wikipedia notes that Spanish "evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe," one branch among several that Latin split into. This dimension shows the direct line of descent running from an older language to a newer one.
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1. Wikipedia: Germanic Languages
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The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, Northern America, Oceania, and Southern Africa.
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