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Hi, I do have a question; if Vedic Sanskrit is treated as a separate language -- which sounds o.k. to me but I am not an expert on Sanskrit -- will Epic Sanskrit get the Vedic Sanskrit subtag as a prefix, or [sa]?<BR>(I am sorry for asking such a dumb question.)<BR>Best,<BR>--C. E. Whitehead<BR><A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A><BR>Michael Everson everson at evertype.com <BR>Wed Jul 14 19:49:27 CEST 2010 <BR><BR>> On 14 Jul 2010, at 16:19, Caoimhin O Donnaile wrote:<BR>>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Anthony Aristar wrote:<BR>>> <BR>>>> Just a comment: linguistically, Vedic Sanskrit is not so much a dialect of Sanskrit, but the ancestor of all Sanskrit dialects.<BR>>> <BR>>> It seems to be treated as a separate language by LinguistList:<BR>>> <BR>>> <A href="http://multitree.linguistlist.org/codes/091">http://multitree.linguistlist.org/codes/091</A><BR>>> <BR>>> which would imply that the thing to do might be to apply for<BR>>> an ISO 639-3 code for it??<BR>>> <BR>>> <A href="http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/submit_changes.asp">http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/submit_changes.asp</A><BR>> This might be a good idea.<BR>> Michael Everson * <A href="http://www.evertype.com/">http://www.evertype.com/</A><BR> <BR> </body>
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