Parsi language explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Book: Parsi. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/pars1251. Harald. Hammarström. Robert. Forkel. Martin. Haspelmath. 2019. Glottolog 4.1. Jena, Germany. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2. Web site: Change Request Documentation: 2022-009 . 27 January 2023 . ISO 639-3.
3. Book: Parsi-Dari. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/pars1252. Harald. Hammarström. Robert. Forkel. Martin. Haspelmath. 2019. Glottolog 4.1. Jena, Germany. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
4. 30.
5. Book: Mar Paharia of Dumka. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/malp1246. Harald. Hammarström. Robert. Forkel. Martin. Haspelmath. 2019. Glottolog 4.1. Jena, Germany. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
6. Schreffler. Gibb . 2011 . The Bazigar (Goaar) People and Their Performing Art . Journal of Punjab Studies. 18. 1&2. 226.