LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: Eastern Armenian

[Mark Davis]

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
1. Name of requester:  Mark Davis
2. E-mail address of requester: mark.davis at macchiato.com
3. Record Requested:

  Type: variant
  Subtag: eastern
  Description: Eastern
  Prefix: hy
  Comments: Prefix 'hy': Eastern Armenian (as distinct from Western Armenian).

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

This variant subtag can be used to distinguish dialects, or a group of
related dialects, in cases where those dialects are commonly referred
to as a "Western" form. For example, Armenian has dialects commonly
referred to as Eastern and Western. Additional prefixes can be added
in the future where the term "Western" can also be meaningfully used
to distinguish among dialects of those prefixes.

(According to the specification, this variant can only be used with
the listed prefixes, although additional prefixes can be added later
where variants of other languages are most commonly known by this
term.)

5. Reference to published description
  of the language (book or article):

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Armenian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Armenian_language
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=hye