Language Variant subtags

[Peter Scharf]

I would like to submit the following four language subtag registration  
forms to register standard tags for recognized dialects of Sanskrit.   
I assume these would be used in an xml:lang attribute as follows:
xml:lang="sa-Deva-ve" = Sanskrit in Devanagari script, in the Vedic  
dialect.
xml:lang="sa-Deva-cl" = Sanskrit in Devanagari script, in the  
Classical dialect.
xml:lang="sa-Deva-ep" = Sanskrit in Devanagari script, in the Epic  
dialect.
xml:lang="sa-Deva-bu" = Sanskrit in Devanagari script, in the Buddhist  
dialect.
Please let me know if the following forms are not correctly filled  
in.  Thank you.
Sincerely,
Peter Scharf

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
    1. Name of requester: Peter M. Scharf
    2. E-mail address of requester: scharf at brown.edu
    3. Record Requested:

       Type:variant
       Subtag:ve
       Description:
       Prefix:
       Preferred-Value:
       Deprecated:
       Suppress-Script:
       Macrolanguage:sa
       Comments:The most ancient dialect of Sanskrit

    4. Intended meaning of the subtag:Vedic Sanskrit
    5. Reference to published description
       of the language (book or article):Macdonell, Arthur A. A Vedic  
Grammar for Students. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1916.
    6. Any other relevant information:

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
    1. Name of requester: Peter M. Scharf
    2. E-mail address of requester: scharf at brown.edu
    3. Record Requested:

       Type:variant
       Subtag:cl
       Description:Classical
       Prefix:
       Preferred-Value:
       Deprecated:
       Suppress-Script:
       Macrolanguage:sa
       Comments:

    4. Intended meaning of the subtag:Classical Sanskrit
    5. Reference to published description
       of the language (book or article):Whitney, William Dwight.  
Sanskrit Grammar. Second edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University  
Press, 1989.
    6. Any other relevant information:

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
    1. Name of requester: Peter M. Scharf
    2. E-mail address of requester: scharf at brown.edu
    3. Record Requested:

       Type:variant
       Subtag:bu
       Description:
       Prefix:
       Preferred-Value:
       Deprecated:
       Suppress-Script:
       Macrolanguage:sa
       Comments:

    4. Intended meaning of the subtag:Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
    5. Reference to published description
       of the language (book or article):Edgerton, Franklin. Buddhist  
Hybrid Sanskrit grammar and dictionary. New Haven, Yale University  
Press, 1953.
    6. Any other relevant information:

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
    1. Name of requester: Peter M. Scharf
    2. E-mail address of requester: scharf at brown.edu
    3. Record Requested:

       Type:variant
       Subtag:ep
       Description:
       Prefix:
       Preferred-Value:
       Deprecated:
       Suppress-Script:
       Macrolanguage:sa
       Comments:

    4. Intended meaning of the subtag:Epic Sanskrit
    5. Reference to published description
       of the language (book or article):Oberlies, Thomas. A Grammar  
of Epic Sanskrit. Indian philology and South Asian studies 5. Berlin;  
New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2003
    6. Any other relevant information:

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Department of Classics             (401) 863-2123 dept.
Brown University
PO Box 1856                               (401) 863-7484 fax
Providence, RI 02912                Scharf at brown.edu
http://www.research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10044
http://sanskritlibrary.org/
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