Tag: Persian
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Persian or Farsi? : By Kamran Talattof
Persian or Farsi? The debate continues… What is the proper name of the language of our motherland in English?By Kamran Talattof Princeton UniversityDecember 16, 1997In recent years, there has been a growing tendency to refer to Persian as Farsi. Professor Ehsan Yarshater, editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica, has written about the damage brought by changing…
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Persian NOT Farsi : By Shapour Suren-Pahlav
The term Persian has been used in the English language for over five hundred years: to describe both a nation with 7000 years of archaeological history, and also the language that nation has used since the rise of the first Persian Empire, the Achaemenids. Unfortunately however, the word ‘Farsi’ is increasingly and incorrectly being used to…
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“FARSI” or “PERSIAN”? : By P. Akbarzadeh
By Pejman Akbarzadeh19 November 2005 (CHN) — Persian (Iranian) people in the English-speaking countries are the only community who use two different terms to refer to their language, “Farsi” and “Persian.” This behavior has caused some confusion among the Westerners as to the appropriateness of these terms.”Farsi” (an Arabic adaptation of the word “Parsi”), is the…