Language Variant subtags for Sanskrit

[Michael Everson]

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/