Sylhetis

Sylhetis
Total population
c. 10.3 million[1][2]
Regions with significant populations
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:
Related ethnic groups

The Sylheti or 'Sylhetis' (English: /sɪˈlɛti/, Sylheti: ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ, pronounced [silɔʈi]; Bengali: সিলেটি, pronounced [sileʈi]) 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]

  1. ^ a b c Sylheti at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "Ranked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Around the World". Visual Capitalist. 15 February 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  3. ^ Shahela Hamid (2011). Language Use and Identity: The Sylheti Bangladeshis in Leeds. pp.Preface. Verlag Peter Lang. Retrieved on 4 December 2020.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference barak-diaspora was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b Bhattacharjee 2013, p. 59–67.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Glanville Price (2000). Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe. pp. 91–92.
  8. ^ "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)
  9. ^ 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.

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