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 spoken by the Parsis of Gujarat and Maharashtra in India. It is taken to be a separate language by Ethnologue and assigned the ISO 639-3 code [prp]. Glottolog treats it as spurious, as the Parsis do not have a distinct language but speak a dialect of Gujarati.[1]
- 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].[2]
- 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[3] and Mal Paharia.[4] It has frequently been used in reference to the secret languages of some social groups,[3] for example that of the Bazigar people of north-west India.[5]
References
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2019). "Parsi". Glottolog 4.1. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ 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.