Parsi-Dari_language

Parsi language

Parsi language

Name used for several languages, some spurious

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 Santali[4] and Mal Paharia.[5] It has frequently been used in reference to the secret languages of some social groups,[4] for example that of the Bazigar people of north-west India.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2019). "Parsi". Glottolog 4.1. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. [2]
    "Change Request Documentation: 2022-009". ISO 639-3. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  3. [3]
    Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2019). "Parsi-Dari". Glottolog 4.1. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. [4]
    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.
  5. [5]
    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.
  6. [6]
    Schreffler, Gibb (2011). "The Bazigar (Goaar) People and Their Performing Art" (PDF). Journal of Punjab Studies. 18 (1&2): 226.
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