New language identifier in ISO 639 - Classical Newari

Håvard Hjulstad havard at hjulstad.com
Sun Mar 7 09:17:44 CET 2004


To quote from the original request:

"Classical Newari is the pre-1850 literary form of Modern Newari. It is no
longer spoken or written, but it is an important source language for
historians and philologists."

Håvard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:harald at alvestrand.no] 
> Sent: 6. mars 2004 23:21
> To: havard at hjulstad.com; IETF-languages list
> Subject: Re: New language identifier in ISO 639 - Classical Newari
> 
> 
> I'm sure everyone knows but me, but I'm insatiably curious:
> 
> what's Newari, and what's the difference between classical Newari and 
> colloquial Newari?
> 
> (a brief websearch gave the info that it's probably a 
> language spoken in 
> Nepal and commonly written in Devangari, but not much more 
> than that....)
> 
>                     Harald
> 
> --On 5. mars 2004 13:57 +0100 Håvard Hjulstad 
> <havard at hjulstad.com> wrote:
> 
> > The ISO 639 Registration Authorities' Joint Advisory Committee has 
> > approved the following item:
> >
> > Alpha-3 identifier:  nwc
> > (No alpha-2 identifier assigned)
> >
> > English names:  Classical Newari; Old Newari
> >
> > French name:  newari classique
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Håvard Hjulstad
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