http://www.proz.com/topic/16636

And Farsi is the Arabic way of saying Persian – very insulting if you ask me. The bottom line is, the language is Persian; Persian is also the dominate ethnic group of Iran; and Persia still exists today as a central province of Iran, even though the name was expanded to call the entire country, which was never changed in 1935, rather, foreign delegates were asked to refer to it in the native way, which was as the Empire of Iran, denoting the Aryan ancestry (ironically only abut 70% are actually Aryan these days). This may have been a bad move – it should have remained as being known as Persia; maybe then people wouldn’t think Persians don’t exist anymore, or that the Persian language has died out, and Persians the world over would be spared from having to defend our culture and language the way we do!

Regards,

Masoud Naseri
Master of Science in Anthropology

FARSI (Arabic forn of PARSI) is interal word of this language and PERSIAN is its international equivalent. There is no fiffrence between these languages.. They are same.
This piece show lack of knowledge of that friend. He shoud read Mr Pejman Akbarzadeh's article again carefuly.

Thanks
Sh. Peyrovani


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...and since I am Greek:
FARSI (Arabic form of PARSI) is the native name of our language and PERSIAN is its English equivalent; as the native name of German language is \'Deutsch\', but we never use \'Deutsch\' in place of \'German\' in English; or native term of Greek Language is \"Ellinika\" and always in English we say \'Greek\' language, not \'Ellinika\' language.