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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.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Sylheti on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Sylheti in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Sylheti language, which some consider as a dialect of Bengali, [20] while many linguists consider it as a distinct language, [21] is central to Sylheti identity. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Its unique phonetic qualities and vocabulary often make it unintelligible to standard Bengali speakers, which contributes to a sense of separateness among Sylhetis.
There is a difference between the pronunciation of ꠞ rô and ꠠ ṛô, though in ordinary speech these are pronounced the same as /ɾɔ/. Like many other Indic scripts, special ligatures for consonant clusters, or conjunct consonants, are used in Sylheti Nagri. [39] For example, ꠞ꠆ꠟ rlô is a conjunct of ꠞ rô and ꠟ lô.
Syloti Nagri (Sylheti pronunciation: [silɔʈi nagɾi]) is a Unicode block containing characters of the Syloti Nagri script for writing the Sylheti language. Syloti Nagri [1] [2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
To a non-Bengali, these dialects may sound or look vastly different, but the differences are mostly in Pronunciation and vocabulary, and not so much a grammatical one, one exception is the addition of grammatical gender in some eastern dialects. Many dialects share features with Sadhu bhasha, which was the written standard until the 19th ...
Sylheti may refer to: Sylhetis, an Indo-Aryan ethnocultural group in the Sylhet division and South Assam; Sylheti language, a language of the Sylheti region;
The pronunciations of glyphs in the same column may not be identical. The pronunciation row is only representative; the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) pronunciation is given for Sanskrit where possible, or another language if necessary. The transliteration is indicated in ISO 15919.