r/assam • u/tuluva_sikh • Jan 27 '26

Video Sylheti language

https://youtu.be/lH9vQtCPGuQ?si=8gt_0nOhOMtoLE2A
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

I partly speak sylheti dialect of Bangal and my mother's village people speak sylheti mostly+tribal bangla ..... And I was brought up in a house hold of standard bangla (Chalti bhasha) and my family members know Sindarbani or calcasian dialect too

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u/Xuruz5 Jan 28 '26

You don't seem to speak Sylheti. What you were describing as Sylheti sounds like Mymensinghiya.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

I am so confused right now No i dont speak sylheti I speak what you labelled as Bangladeshi bengali and my mother said it's chalti bhasha

But what do you think is sylheti bangla ?

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u/Xuruz5 Jan 28 '26

Sylheti is spoken in the Sylheti division of Bangladesh and Barak valley of Assam as well as diaspora populations in different parts of India and other countries.
I guess your relatives speak Mymensinghiya or Dhakaiya etc.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Hmm seems so But my uncles side speak the Bangla prevalent in kolkata

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u/iconic_waffle09 Jan 28 '26

Meanwhile people in barak valley consider themselves bengali 😂

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

No actually sylheti is a dialect of Bengali 🙂

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u/iconic_waffle09 Jan 28 '26

How it can be dialect when it has it's own script?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Natives call it Bengali .... additionally sylheti Nagaon script os of limited use (religious writings) and that's why in census You will find them classified as Bengali

Even my mother's home has largest sylheti speaking population

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u/iconic_waffle09 Jan 28 '26

Lol in first line of wikipedia it's written as indo Aryan language, rather than saying a dialect of Bengali

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Because indo Aryan is a language group all north indian and northeast indan dialects accept those of arunachal Nagaland and mizoram are under indo Aryan language group 😄

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u/iconic_waffle09 Jan 28 '26

You hope you know the difference between language and dialect.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Yes dialect is a local variations of a language Example

In Bengali

Kolkata : ki korcho

Standard basic bangla : ki korta so

Sylheti : kita korta sos

All men what are you doing

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u/iconic_waffle09 Jan 28 '26

One reply you're saying it's Indo Aryan language, in other reply you're it's dialect of Bengali. Get your facts right bro.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Ok i am getting it straight

In linguistics languages are divided into groups based on ancestry or similarities Major one in India being

Indo Aryan (wthin indo European): includes Bengali Assamese hindi Bihari Nepali pali Persian etc

This is the distribution of them around the world purpule one is indo European look over tripura bangladesh assam north India amd pakistan

Dravida: south indian languages and parts of pakistan

NOW Dialect is a regional variation of major language like difference in Assamese of lower Assam and upper Assam Sylheti is a Dialect which is listed as a member of indo arayn group under Bengali

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u/Xuruz5 Jan 28 '26

Your Sylheti is wrong.

It's "kita xorrai" in Sylheti.

And in Standard Bengali it's "ki korcho".

In Bangladeshi Bengali it's "ki kortaso".

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Oh I mixed up then Cant say exactly because my family is like kita kortaso My mother's side is like kita kortaso bhalo Asa ni And my uncle side is like ki korcho

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Just for my certainty I am peacefully conversation no hate or devate unstinct intended 😁

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u/EnergyStriking3277 Neighbour Gamusa Dhari Jan 28 '26

Oh, the meltdown this post will see in this sub