Farsi or Parsi.

A name for Old Persic, now extinct, but from which modern Persian has been derived.

⁂ It is that stage of the Persian language which followed on the Pehlevi, and prevailed from about A.D. 500 to A.D. 1000. G. R.

Faschetru.

African: a negro dialect of Nubia. See Rifaud: “Tableau de l’Egypte,” Paris, 1830.

Fassa.

Sub-dialect of Italian, spoken in the Tyrol.

Faté.

Polynesian: a dialect of the New Hebrides.