[XeTeX] [Off-topic] Persian versus Farsi

[Vafa Khalighi]

>
>> 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?
>
>
People of Turkey call their language Turkce, while the language name in
English is Turkish, will you say "he speaks Turkce" or you say "he speaks
Turkish"?
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