Parsi language
Parsi has been used as a name for several languages of South Asia and Iran, some of them
spurious
:
- Parsi, an alternative spelling of Farsi, the Persian language.
- Parsi, the variety of Gujarati spoken by the Parsis of Gujarat and Maharashtra in India. Prior to 2023, Ethnologue treated it as a separate language, with the ISO 639-3 code [prp]. That code has now been deprecated and the variety is instead subsumed under Gujarati.[1][2]
- Parsi-Dari, a supposed language spoken by Zoroastrians in Iran. Ethnologue assigns it the ISO 639-3 code [prd], but Glottolog considers it spurious and a duplicate of the Zoroastrian Dari language [gbz].[3]
- Parsi, a name occasionally used by speakers of Indo-Aryan languages of northern India to refer to speech forms they do not understand. It has been attested, among others, for
References
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2019). "Parsi". Glottolog 4.1. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ "Change Request Documentation: 2022-009". ISO 639-3. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2019). "Parsi-Dari". Glottolog 4.1. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ a b Grierson, George A. (1906). Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. IV, Mundā and Dravidian languages. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. p. 30.
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2019). "Mar Paharia of Dumka". Glottolog 4.1. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Schreffler, Gibb (2011). "The Bazigar (Goaar) People and Their Performing Art" (PDF). Journal of Punjab Studies. 18 (1&2): 226.