Le 03/10/2010 13:51, Vafa Khalighi a écrit :
We say Parsi, the international community says Persian. History says
Persian, where does Farsi come from? As I said before, you should read
some history before commenting unwisely?
It's not a matter of history, it's a matter of phonetics. "Farsi" comes
from "Parsi" in some phonetic system. It is not fake, it's just the
transliteration of a pronunciation. I'm sorry to tell you there's no
real name for your language, since there's no real name for anything. In
French we say "Persan", with no semi-vowel "i" as in "Persian" (and a
nasalized "a", despite the spelling, not to mention the pronunciation of
"r"). Would you say it's fake? Or would you say that the English
pronunciation is fake just because in English you don't use nasalized
vowels? That's the same thing with p/f, except it looks more dramatic,
because of the spelling. But I'm sorry to say that "Farsi" is closer to
"Parsi" than "Persian" is, if you count differences.
And anyway: the name of your language depends on the language in which
you say it. And no language is better than any other to represent things
-- even itself.
at least you know that arabs have tried their best to change the name
of "Persian gulf" into Arabian gulf but they always have failed to do so.
That's not phonetics, that's politics. Nothing to do with Persian/Farsi.
Paul
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