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A description of the king and queen of the termites in Sylheti. Sylheti [a] (Sylheti Nagri: ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ, síloṭi, pronounced ⓘ; Bengali: সিলেটি, sileṭi, pronounced) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by an estimated 11 million people, primarily in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh, Barak Valley of Assam, and northern parts of Tripura in India.
Sylheti culture, while considered a subculture of Bengali culture, [16] [17] is distinguished by unique linguistic, historical, and regional characteristics. [18] The Sylheti language, which some consider as a dialect of Bengali, [19] while many linguists consider it as a distinct language, [20] is central to Sylheti identity.
While the more widely spoken and better-known Austroasiatic languages are spoken in Southeast Asia (e.g. Khmer and Vietnamese), smaller languages of that family are spoken by indigenous communities of northern and eastern Bangladesh. There are two branches of Austro-Asiatic represented in Bangladesh. Khasi: Spoken in Sylhet division. Also a ...
Sylheti is spoken by the vast majority of the people, while Standard Bengali is the official language used by the state government and officials. [38] [39] [40] Ethnic minorities are 2,424 (0.45%), of which 2,040 are Manipuri.
The official language of Sylhet is Bengali, which is used in education and all government affairs in the division. Sylheti is the most widely spoken in the division. At one point, the Sylheti Nagri script was notably popular in its use to write Islamic puthis .
It is also claimed that the orthography of the script equates with Sylheti, reflecting the phonetic and grammatical features of the vernacular, it provided a simpler and more precise representation than the more prevalent Bengali script. [9] Sylheti Nagri therefore represented a unique literary culture of the Sylhet region.
Language Native name Script Alphabet Number of speakers (in millions) Native region Assamese: অসমীয়া Oxomiya: Bengali–Assamese script: Assamese alphabet: 15.3 [3] India Bengali: বাংলা Bangla: Bengali–Assamese script: Bengali alphabet: 261.8 [4] Bangladesh (national and official)
Standard Bengali based on the Rarhi dialect is the national language of Bangladesh. The majority of Bangladeshis speak an eastern variant of Bengali. [20] Other native languages of Bangladesh include Sylheti, Rangpuri, Noakhali and Chittagonian, while some ethnic minority groups also speak Tibeto-Burman, Dravidian and Austro-Asiatic languages. [20]