Language Variant subtags for Sanskrit

[Caoimhin O Donnaile]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Anthony Aristar wrote:

> Just a comment:  linguistically, Vedic Sanskrit is not so much a dialect 
> of Sanskrit, but the ancestor of all Sanskrit dialects.

It seems to be treated as a separate language by LinguistList:

    http://multitree.linguistlist.org/codes/091

which would imply that the thing to do might be to apply for
an ISO 639-3 code for it??

    http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/submit_changes.asp

Caoimhín