LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: sl-bohoric
Tomaz Erjavec
tomaz.erjavec at ijs.si
Fri Apr 27 11:13:06 CEST 2012
LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
1. Name of requester: Tomaž Erjavec
2. E-mail address of requester: tomaz.erjavec at ijs.si
3. Record Requested:
Type: variant
Subtag: bohoric
Description: Slovene in Bohorič alphabet
Prefix: sl
Comments: The subtag represents the alphabet codified by Adam Bohorič
in 1584 and used from the first printed Slovene book and up to the
mid-19th century.
4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
The subtag marks texts written in Slovene using the Bohorič alphabet
which is distinguished from the contemporary norm by using the long s,
digraphs, etc.
5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohori%C4%8D_alphabet
Bohorič, Adam, and Branko Berčič. Arcticae Horulae. Ljubljana:
Mladinska knjiga, 1970. Print.
6. Any other relevant information:
The tag "sl-bohoric" is relevant as a possible value of the @xml:lang
attribute to be used by language technology applications for modernising
such texts, e.g. for text search in cultural heritage digital libraries.
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