LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM 1. Name of requester: Tomaž Erjavec 2. E-mail address of requester: tomaz.erjavec&ijs.si 3. Record Requested: Type: variant Subtag: dajnko Description: Slovene in Dajnko alphabet Prefix: sl Comments: The subtag represents the alphabet codified by Peter Dajnko and used from 1824 to 1839 mostly in Styria (in what is now Eastern Slovenia). 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: The subtag marks texts written in Slovene using the historical Dajnko alphabet, which is distinguished from the contemporary norm by new letters. 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dajnko_alphabet Stabej, Marko. Peter Dajnko in njegova Dajnčica. In (Janez Cvirn, ed.) Slovenska Kronika XIX. stoletja. (2001). Print. 6. Any other relevant information: The tag "sl-dajnko" is relevant as a possible value of the @xml:lang attribute to be used by language technology applications for transcribing and modernising such texts, e.g. for text search in cultural heritage digital libraries. E.g. the National and University Library of Slovenia has plans to digitise about 4,000 pages of books written in the Dajnko alphabet.