From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 12:07:11 EDT
> Both Persian and Farsi appear in the list of MARC langauge codes (http://
> www.loc.gov/marc/languages/lang_c2g.html#f). Surprisingly, Eastern Farsi
and
> Western Farsi are the only names listed in the Ethnologue Language Name
Index
> (http://www.ethnologue.com/language_index.asp). There's no entry for
Persian.
That group of pages list only Ethnologue's citation name and not alternate
names: the list of alternate names is something like 40,000 long. If you go
to the entry point for the online Ethnologue
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp and click on "Search the Ethnologue" and
then search on Persian, you will get a list of all the entries that make
include "Persian", though this will include entries for distinct and even
unrelated languages (e.g. a reference to "Persian-Arabic script").
- Peter
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Peter Constable
Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA
Tel: +1 972 708 7485
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