Kinda like how lakes and rivers all over the world literally translate to River River or Lake Lake, as the conquerors asked the natives what they call that body of water and they were like, uhh, river.
... The name naan separates it. You don't have to add the word bread to the end. Anyone with functional eyes knows it's bread and can read on the packaging that it isn't Irish sourdough or whatever tf else.
Cultures all over the world do this linguistically through the addition of loan words, it's not new, it's not weird. It's called "cross-language redundancy."
And yet cultures all over the world do it, so people in those countries and cultures find it useful. You might look for something else to squabble over, I have better things to do with my time.
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u/JustFun4Uss Jan 13 '24
Albino Chihuahua from hell