Parsi language

Not to be confused with Dari language (Zoroastrian) or Dari language (Persian).

Parsi
Parsi-Dari
Native to	Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, UK, US
Ethnicity	Parsis
Native speakers	(undated figure of 1 million)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Central Iran Parsi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: prd – Parsi-Dari (Iran) prp – Parsi (India)

Parsi is a Northwestern Iranian spoken by a million Zoroastrians in Iran, India, and neighboring countries. The Iranian and Indian varieties separated 600–700 years ago, and are only mutually intelligible with difficulty. The Indian variety is known as Parsi, after the Parsis (lit. 'Persians') who speak it, while the Iranian variety is distinguished as Parsi-Dari or even Dari, though it is distinct from the more conservative Zoroastrian Dari language also spoken in Iran, and which is also spoken in India by more recent Irani Zoroastrian immigrants.