Bangladesh (Sylhet) India (Barak Valley, Hojai, North Tripura, Shillong) Middle East (GCC countries) Western world (United Kingdom, United States, Canada)
Languages
Sylheti (L1) Bengali (L2)
Religion
Majority: Islam Minorities:
Hinduism
Christianity
Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
Dhakaiyas
Miya people
Other Bengalis
The Sylheti (English: /sɪˈlɛti/) or Sylhetis are an Indo-Aryan ethnocultural group[3] that are associated with the Sylhet region (Sylhet Division of Bangladesh and the Karimganj district of Assam, India). There are strong diasporic communities in Barak Valley of Assam, India,[4][1][5][6][7] North Tripura,[1] as well as in rest of Bangladesh and northeast India. They speak Sylheti, an Eastern Indo-Aryan language that is considered "a distinct language by many and a dialect of Bengali by some others".[8]
Sylheti identity is associated mainly with regional culture and language, while accompanied with an ethnic Bengali identity.[9][5]
^ abcSylheti at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
^"Ranked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Around the World". Visual Capitalist. 15 February 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
^Shahela Hamid (2011). Language Use and Identity: The Sylheti Bangladeshis in Leeds. pp.Preface. Verlag Peter Lang. Retrieved on 4 December 2020.
^Cite error: The named reference barak-diaspora was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ abBhattacharjee 2013, p. 59–67.
^Wouters, Jelle J. P.; Subba, Tanka B. (30 September 2022). The Routledge Companion to Northeast India. Taylor & Francis. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-000-63699-4.
^Glanville Price (2000). Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe. pp. 91–92.
^"Along the linguistic continuum of eastern Indic languages, Sylheti occupies an ambiguous position, where it is considered a distinct language by many and also as a dialect of Bengali or Bangla by some others."(Mahanta & Gope 2018:81)
^Simard, Candide; Dopierala, Sarah M; Thaut, E Marie (2020). "Introducing the Sylheti language and its speakers, and the SOAS Sylheti project" (PDF). Language Documentation and Description. 18: 5. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
The Sylheti (English: /sɪˈlɛti/) or Sylhetis are an Indo-Aryan ethnocultural group that are associated with the Sylhet region (Sylhet Division of Bangladesh...
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"Intelligibility of Standard Bengali by Sylhetis, the geographically clearly clearly defined use of Sylheti and its usage by a predominantly rural population...
dishes. Although Ashkul Lebu or Ashkoni Lebu is unheard of amongst many Sylhetis due to lack of knowledge on it, and it is most likely to be nearly extinct;...
rapid urbanisation took place in the town, fostered by the expatriate Sylhetis and the process is still ongoing. On 10 April 2001, Sylhet was changed...
Bengalis who have origins in Greater Sylhet. The people may also be known as Sylheti. Abdul Muktadir, academician martyred in the Bangladesh Liberation War...
languages are the largest grouping which includes Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Sylheti, Hindi, Pahari-Pothwari, Tamil, and Gujarati. According to the 2011 census...
Conquest of Sylhet. Khala Miah, who was a Sylheti migrant, claimed this was a very encouraging factor for Sylhetis to travel to Calcutta aiming to eventually...
articulation of western Bengal). Some varieties of Bengali, particularly Sylheti, Chittagonian and Chakma, have contrastive tone; differences in the pitch...
Colloquial Bengali, and their regional dialects. These include Chittagonian or Sylheti, though some linguists consider them as separate languages. English plays...
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Rohingyas of the Rakhine State in Myanmar. Sylhetis originate from the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh and they speak Sylheti. Noakhailla speakers can be found in...
Typography Western Latin character sets (computing) Spread of the Latin script "Sylheti language and the Syloti-Nagri alphabet". www.omniglot.com. Retrieved 8...
Other tonal Indo-Aryan languages include Hindko, Dogri, Western Pahari, Sylheti and some Dardic languages. Bailey, T.Grahame (1919), English-Punjabi Dictionary...
English novel had the force of a defining caricature ... [S]ome of the Sylhetis of Brick Lane did not recognise themselves. Bengali Muslims smart under...
Chicken tikka masala is a dish consisting of roasted marinated chicken chunks (chicken tikka) in a spiced sauce. The sauce is usually creamy and orange-coloured...
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