Parsi language

{{Short description|Name used for several languages, some spurious}}

Parsi has been used as a name for several languages of Iran and South Asians, 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.{{cite book|chapter=Parsi|chapter-url=http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/pars1251|editor1-first=Harald|editor1-last=Hammarström|editor2-first=Robert|editor2-last=Forkel|editor3-first=Martin|editor3-last=Haspelmath|year=2019|title=Glottolog 4.1|location=Jena, Germany|publisher=Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History}}{{Cite web |title=Change Request Documentation: 2022-009 |url=https://iso639-3.sil.org/request/2022-009 |access-date=27 January 2023 |website=ISO 639-3}}
• 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].{{cite book|chapter=Parsi-Dari|chapter-url=http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/pars1252|editor1-first=Harald|editor1-last=Hammarström|editor2-first=Robert|editor2-last=Forkel|editor3-first=Martin|editor3-last=Haspelmath|year=2019|title=Glottolog 4.1|location=Jena, Germany|publisher=Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History}}
• 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{{cite LSI|4|p=30}} and Mal Paharia.{{cite book|chapter=Mar Paharia of Dumka|chapter-url=http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/malp1246|editor1-first=Harald|editor1-last=Hammarström|editor2-first=Robert|editor2-last=Forkel|editor3-first=Martin|editor3-last=Haspelmath|year=2019|title=Glottolog 4.1|location=Jena, Germany|publisher=Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History}} It has frequently been used in reference to the secret languages of some social groups, for example that of the Bazigar people of north-west India.{{cite journal| last = Schreffler| first = Gibb | date = 2011 | title = The Bazigar (Goaar) People and Their Performing Art | journal = Journal of Punjab Studies| volume = 18| number = 1&2| url = https://punjab.global.ucsb.edu/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.gisp.d7_sp/files/sitefiles/journals/volume18/8_Bazigar_article.pdf| page = 226}}