RE: Persian or Farsi?

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 12:07:11 EDT

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    > Both Persian and Farsi appear in the list of MARC langauge codes (http://
    > www.loc.gov/marc/languages/lang_c2g.html#f). Surprisingly, Eastern Farsi
    and
    > Western Farsi are the only names listed in the Ethnologue Language Name
    Index
    > (http://www.ethnologue.com/language_index.asp). There's no entry for
    Persian.

    That group of pages list only Ethnologue's citation name and not alternate
    names: the list of alternate names is something like 40,000 long. If you go
    to the entry point for the online Ethnologue
    http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp and click on "Search the Ethnologue" and
    then search on Persian, you will get a list of all the entries that make
    include "Persian", though this will include entries for distinct and even
    unrelated languages (e.g. a reference to "Persian-Arabic script").

    - Peter

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