Language Variant subtags for Sanskrit

[Peter Scharf]

Another thought occurred to me to name variant tags using Sanskrit  
terms:

vaidika	Vedic
laukika	Classical
bauddha	Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
itihasa	Epic

The fourth to be parallel as an adjective should be "aitihasika" but  
that is too long so I chose the noun on which the adjectival derivate  
is based.  Another option would be to use the truncated "aitihas".   
The others as nouns would be:

veda
loka
buddha

The 2nd and 3rd would indeed be strange and not have the desired  
linguistic sense.

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On 20 Jul. 2010, at 8:11 AM, Michael Everson wrote:

> On 20 Jul 2010, at 12:56, John Cowan wrote:
>> Michael Everson scripsit:
>>
>>> What is the difference between "Sanskrit" and "Classical Sanskrit",
>>> then? Why do you need both? Why not just the three others Vedic,
>>> Epic, Buddhist?
>>
>> Because "Sanskrit" is the wider term, or hypernym, for which the  
>> others
>> (including "Classical Sanskrit") are hyponyms.
>
> So we have English and Standard English?
>
>> It sometimes happens that a hypernym has the same phonological and  
>> orthographic shape as its hypernym: thus what in English are  
>> distinguished as "Turkic" (hypernym) and "Turkish" (hyponym) are  
>> the same word in Turkish -- but that does
>> not mean that Turks can't tell the difference between Turkish and  
>> the other Turkic languages.
>
> I'm not *very* convinced by this analogy. A little.
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
>

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