The world's languages can be grouped into those which call oranges oranges, those which call oranges apples and those which call oranges Portugals.
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Of those languages which call oranges oranges, a guest consonant often makes a cameo appearance at the start: N in Spanish (naranja), L in Portuguese (laranja) and T in Catalan (taronja), while Italian (arancia) does without.
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Replying to @propensive
Narangi in Indiahttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine
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I think the word is Dravidian is origin, and it arrived in Europe with the N at the start, which was variously lost or replaced...
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