Language Variant subtags for Sanskrit

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Wed Jul 14 20:28:28 CEST 2010


On 14 Jul 2010, at 19:02, David Starner wrote:

> I have a problem with both classical and epic. "Classical Esperanto"
> gets a few hundred hits, frequently being used to contrast early
> Esperanto with modern Esperanto, but sometimes being used in the sense
> of Esperanto versus Reformed Esperanto and other Esperantidos.

Well, OK, but you could also use the tag eo-ucrcor which would mean the Unified Cornish Revised orthography for Esperanto. Not meaningful, but not really problematic. 

> Epic is a little harder to get examples for, but it still strikes me as a tag that could get used for various eras and various literary styles of many languages.

Well, I have asked for Sanskrit terms for them.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/



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