Language Variant subtags for Sanskrit
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Wed Jul 14 19:49:27 CEST 2010
On 14 Jul 2010, at 16:19, Caoimhin O Donnaile wrote:
> 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
This might be a good idea.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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