Editing Persian language (section)

===Standard varieties' names===
The standard Persian of Iran has been called, apart from ''Persian'' and ''Farsi'', by names such as ''Iranian Persian'' and ''Western Persian'', exclusively.<ref>{{cite book |title=The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge |last=Richardson |first=Charles Francis |publisher=Dodd, Mead |year=1892 |pages=541}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Linguistics |last=Strazny |first=Philipp |year=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-45522-4 |pages=324}}</ref> The official language of Iran is designated simply as ''Persian'' ({{lang|fa|فارسی}}, {{Transliteration|pes|fārsi}}).<ref name="Iran Constitution"/>

The standard Persian of Afghanistan has been officially named ''Dari'' ({{lang|prs|دری}}, {{Transliteration|prs|dari}}) since 1958.<ref name="Olesen"/> Also referred to as ''Afghan Persian'' in English, it is one of Afghanistan's two official languages, together with [[Pashto language|Pashto]]. The term ''Dari'', meaning "of the court", originally referred to the variety of Persian used in the court of the Sasanian Empire in capital [[Ctesiphon]], which was spread to the northeast of the empire and gradually replaced the former Iranian dialects of [[Parthia]] ([[Parthian language|Parthian]]).<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/dari |title=Darī |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica |date=17 November 2011 |first=Gilbert |last=Lazard |volume=VII |pages=34–35 |quote=It is derived from the word for ''dar'' (court, lit., "gate"). ''Darī'' was thus the language of the court and of the capital, Ctesiphon. On the other hand, it is equally clear from this passage that ''darī'' was also in use in the eastern part of the empire, in Khorasan, where it is known that in the course of the Sasanian period Persian gradually supplanted Parthian and where no dialect that was not Persian survived. The passage thus suggests that ''darī'' was actually a form of Persian, the common language of Persia. (...) Both were called ''pārsī'' (Persian), but it is very likely that the language of the north, that is, the Persian used on former Parthian territory and also in the Sasanian capital, was distinguished from its congener by a new name, ''darī'' ([language] of the court). |access-date=22 July 2019 |archive-date=24 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124025639/https://iranicaonline.org/articles/dari |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Ludwig |last=Paul |url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/persian-language-1-early-new-persian |title=Persian Language: i: Early New Persian |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica |date=19 November 2013 |quote=''Northeast''. Khorasan, the homeland of the Parthians (called ''abaršahr'' "the upper lands" in MP), had been partly Persianized already in late Sasanian times. Following Ebn al-Moqaffaʿ, the variant of Persian spoken there was called ''Darī'' and was based upon the one used in the Sasanian capital Seleucia-Ctesiphon (Ar. ''al-Madāʾen''). (...) Under the specific historical conditions that have been sketched above, the Dari (Middle) Persian of the 7th century was developed, within two centuries, to the Dari (New) Persian that is attested in the earliest specimens of NP poetry in the late 9th century. |access-date=18 March 2019 |archive-date=17 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190317184538/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/persian-language-1-early-new-persian |url-status=live}}</ref>

Tajik Persian ({{lang|tg|форси́и тоҷикӣ́}}, {{Transliteration|tg|forsi-i tojikī}}), the standard Persian of Tajikistan, has been officially designated as ''Tajik'' ({{lang|tg-Cyrl|тоҷикӣ}}, {{Transliteration|tg|''tojikī''}}) since the time of the [[Soviet Union]].<ref name="Baker"/> It is the name given to the varieties of Persian spoken in Central Asia in general.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/tajik-ii-tajiki-persian |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica |title=Tajik ii. Tajik Persian |first=John |last=Perry |date=20 July 2009 |access-date=22 July 2019 |archive-date=1 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201053157/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/tajik-ii-tajiki-persian |url-status=live}}</ref>