The treasury of languages

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Parnkalla.

Australian: dialect of Spencer’s-gulf and Port Lincoln. Vocaby. by Schürmann, Adelaide, 1844; Eyre’s “Journals,” London, 1845.

Paropamisan.

Dr. Latham’s class name for the Hindu-Kush dialects, as Dard, Shina, &c.

Parsee.

(1) Indians of Persian descent. The modern Parsees or fire-worshippers speak Gujerattee.

(2) Fire-worshippers of Persia. See [Guebre].

Parsi.

Iranic: extinct dialect of Old Persian, belonging to the province of Farsistan; it is the same as Pazend, and is derived from Pehlevi, being the third stage of Old Bactrian or Zend, and was the dialect used by Firdusi, the poet (Farrar: “Families of Speech,” p. 104). See Spiegel: “Grammatik der Parsi Sprache.”