Sylheti dialect

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Name (Latin)
Sylheti dialect
Other forms of name
Sylhet dialect
Sylhetti Bangla
Sylhetti dialect
See Also From tracing topical name
Bengali language
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Bangladesh
Great Britain
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q2044560
Library of congress: sh 96010966
Sources of Information
  • Chalmers, R. Learning Sylheti, c1996:p. 4 (Sylheti; generally defined as a dialect of Bengali)
  • Mobbs, M. Britain's South Asian languages, 1985:p. 26 (a large proportion of Bengali speakers in Britain are from Sylhet District where the vernacular (Sylheti) differs considerably from the standard Bengali)
  • Voegelin lang.:p. 238 (Sylhet)
  • Ethnologue:index (Sylhetti; lang. Bangladesh, United Kingdom) p. 506 (Sylhetti; Sylhetti Bangla; appears to have lexical similarity with Bengali)
  • South Asian lang. : a handbook, 1985:p. 47 (Sylheti)
  • LC database, Nov. 21, 1996(Sylhetti; Sylheti)
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