Debbie Garside scripsit: > BTW, IMHO there is a marked difference between "Church Slavonic" and "Old > Church Slavonic"; two separate entities. Yes and no. The distinction is analogous to the difference between Mediaeval and Classical Latin. In both cases we have a literary language based on an archaic version of the spoken language, with some accommodations to the vernacular next to which it is used. As time goes on, the adaptations grow larger and more diverse as the vernacular forms split into separate languages (eventually with their own literary traditions), new vocabulary is added, and the especially archaic features of the old standard are dropped, first in phonology, then in morphosyntax. But in both cases the changes are slow and gradual, and do not amount to a change of language according to the ISO 639-3 definitions. RFC 4646 variants is probably the right level, if anyone needs to make the distinction. -- On the Semantic Web, it's too hard to prove John Cowan cowan at ccil.org you're not a dog. --Bill de hOra http://www.ccil.org/~cowan _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
Note Well: Messages sent to this mailing list are the opinions of the senders and do not imply endorsement by the IETF.