''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
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and u ...
, the Persian language.
* Parsi, the variety spoken by the
Parsis
Parsis () or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism. They are descended from Persians who migrated to Medieval India during and after the Arab conquest of Iran (part of the early Muslim c ...
of
Gujarat
Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the nin ...
and
Maharashtra in India. It is taken to be a separate language by
Ethnologue and assigned the
ISO 639-3
ISO 639-3:2007, ''Codes for the representation of names of languages – Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages'', is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series. It defines three-letter codes for ...
code
rp Glottolog
''Glottolog'' is a bibliographic database of the world's lesser-known languages, developed and maintained first at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany (between 2015 and 2020 at the Max Planck Institute fo ...
treats it as spurious, as the Parsis do not have a distinct language but speak a dialect of
Gujarati.
* Parsi-Dari, a supposed language spoken by
Zoroastrians in Iran. Ethnologue assigns it the ISO 639-3 code
rd but Glottolog considers it spurious and a duplicate of the
Zoroastrian Dari language
Zoroastrian Dari ( fa, دری زرتشتی or گویش بهدینان literally Behdīnān dialect) is a Persian dialect and a Northwestern Iranian. ethnolect.
Zoroastrian Dari used to be spoken by almost a million people in central Iran, up ...
bz
* 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 and
Mal Paharia. It has frequently been used in reference to the
secret languages of some social groups,
for example that of the
Bazigar
Bazigar (from fa, بازیگر bazi + gar), or Goaars, are an ethnic group of north-western India. They are primarily found in Punjab and in Pakistan's Punjab, but there are also communities in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Chandigarh, Himachal ...
people of north-west India.
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