Language Variant subtags for Sanskrit

[Peter Constable]

I said as much several days ago, but nobody seems to have noticed.

Historic language varieties are candidates for encoding in ISO 639-3.


Peter

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From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Caoimhin O Donnaile

> 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