[XeTeX] [Off-topic] Persian versus Farsi

[Vafa Khalighi]

OK, understood, but I also feel that it rather begs the question (the
English

> name, that is, not your answer).  Because if the received wisdom were that
> the
> preferred English name for the language  was Farsi and not Persian, then
> the English name of the Academy would surely be the the “Academy of Farsi
> Language and Literature”, would it not ?  So it is a sort of
> self-fulfilling prophesy :
>

What is the historical name of the language of Persian nation in the west?
is it Farsi or Persian? Was it Persian empire or Farsian Empire?



>
> the Academy of Persian Language and Literature "clearly advocates the use
> of
> the word 'Persian' not 'Farsi'", because if it did not, it would call
> itself (in English)
> the "Academy of Farsi Language and Literature" !
>
> But if the Persian name for the Persian language is, in transliteration, *
> Fārsī*,
> is it really logical for the Persian nation (or should I here be writing
> "Iranian" ?
> This is quite a linguistic minefield) to seek to tell the West that while
> it
> is perfectly normal for a Persian (Iranian) to call his language *Fārsī*,
> we in the
> west must call it Persian ?!
>
>
Why not?
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