Arabic-L:GEN:Persian or Farsi?

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Date: 15 Aug 2006
From:BernhardtJE at state.gov
Subject:Persian or Farsi?

Colleagues,
	We are having a lively discussion on the use of the words 'Persian'
and 'Farsi' to name the language spoken in Iran.  The Ethnologue  
seems to
prefer 'Farsi' (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=IR).   
Would
you agree with that?  If not, why not?
James E. Bernhardt
Chair, Near East, Central and South Asian Languages
FSI
703-302-7291

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