Proposed new variant subtag: pre1917

[Michael Everson]

This works for me. 

On 13 Sep 2010, at 17:20, Avram Lyon wrote:

> John Cowan <cowan at mercury dot ccil dot org> wrote:
>> I would propose the tag "grazhdan", the root of _grazhdanskij_
>> 'civil', the word usually applied to Peter's reformed letter shapes.
> 
> I am happy with this amended subtag; my revised submission is below.
> 
> 2010/9/13 Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org>:
>> What would you propose for the 1917 (sometimes cited as 1918) reform by
>> Shakhmatov that is in use today?  Those would be our two subtags.
> 
> If we like names instead of numbers, then I think that "shakhmat"
> would be a great subtag. Should I formulate a request for this subtag
> as well?
> 
> -- Avram
> 
> Revised subtag request, formerly for "pre1917":
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
>  1. Name of requester: Avram Lyon
>  2. E-mail address of requester: ajlyon at ucla.edu
>  3. Record Requested:
> 
>     Type: variant
>     Subtag: grazhdan
>     Description: Russian orthography from the Petrine orthographic
> reforms of 1708 to the 1917 orthographic reform
>     Prefix: ru
>     Preferred-Value:
>     Deprecated:
>     Suppress-Script:
>     Comments:
> 
>  4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
> This variant subtag is intended to apply to text presented in the
> Russian Civil Script, after the Petrine orthographic reforms of 1708
> and before the December 23, 1917 orthographic reform developed by
> Shakhmatov.
>  5. Reference to published description
>     of the language (book or article):
> Грот, Яков Карлович «Русское правописание» (1885) [Grot, Iakov
> Karlovich _Russian_Orthography_ (1885)]
> Декрет Наркомпроса РСФСР от 23.12.1917 года «О введении нового
> правописания», published in «Газета Временного Рабочего и
> Крестьянского Правительства», № 40, 23.12.1917 [Decree of the People's
> Commission for Enlightenment of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist
> Republic on 23 December 1917 "On the introduction of the new
> orthography", published in the "Newspaper of the Temporary Workers'
> and Peasants' Government", No. 40, 23 December 1917]
>  6. Any other relevant information:
> The decree referenced above lays out the differences between the orthography
> denoted by the present subtag and the modern (post-1917) norm. The subtag does
> not distinguish between orthographic variants in the intervening
> years. Iakov Grot's 1885 _Russian_Orthography_ provides the first full
> description of the orthography and the established norm.
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