Sylheti is a language spoken in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh and parts of India, with a significant diaspora in the UK. While it’s often considered a dialect of Bengali, Sylheti has distinct phonetic and grammatical features.
Sylheti
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Classification
Indo-European > Indic
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Speakers
11 million
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Script
Bengali
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Text direction
Left-to-right
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Also spoken
Bangladesh
Sylheti
Sylheti is an Indo-Aryan language that is a member of an Indo-European language group. Other branches of the Indo-European language group include Celtic, Germanic, Balto-Slavic and Indo-Aryan to name but a few.
Sylheti originally developed from Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu) spoken in India and Bangladesh. It is often considered as a dialect of Bengali and, although it is not mutually intelligible with Standard Bengali, 80% of Sylheti vocabulary is shared with Bengali.
Sylheti used to be written with its own script; however, this script is now nearly extinct. Sylheti is now normally written with the Bengali script due to a policy of the Government of Bangladesh to promote a unified Bengali identity.
At Geo Language Services, our Sylheti translations maintain the integrity of the language while ensuring cultural appropriateness and accuracy.
Services offered for this language
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Interesting fact
The Sylheti language of Bangladesh shares 80% of its vocabulary with Bengali.
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