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Farsi, also known as Persian, is the modern Iranian language spoken in Iran. The dialect spoken in Afghanistan is called Dari or Dari Persian. These languages are written in the Perso-Arabic alphabet.
Parsi is the name of an ancient Persian dialect; the term Parsi (sometimes spelled Parsee) also refers to an Indian Zoroastrian.
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