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A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differnces in grammar and vocabylary is a:

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Language Group

A language group is a collection of languages that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. An example of this would be the "Romance Languages" consisting of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian.

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