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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In Catalunya they say Gall D'indi which express procedències from India. But there's the theory that Columbus thought to have reached India instead of the new continent so perhaps that's the reason. In Mallorca we call them indiot (probably a variation of the above)
What is a guinea pig called in Catalan? The French consider them Indian, whilst the English obviously don't...
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I think it's conill d'índies which indeed makes reference to procedence (literally rabbit from India)
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Ah... so now we need a language which calls it a guinea rabbit to fill the missing quadrant!
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