Language Variant subtags for Sanskrit

[CE Whitehead]

Hi, I do have a question; if Vedic Sanskrit is treated as a separate language -- which sounds o.k. to me but I am not an expert on Sanskrit -- will Epic Sanskrit get the Vedic Sanskrit subtag as a prefix, or [sa]?
(I am sorry for asking such a dumb question.)
Best,
--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar at hotmail.com
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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