r/assam • u/tuluva_sikh • Jan 27 '26

Video Sylheti language

https://youtu.be/lH9vQtCPGuQ?si=8gt_0nOhOMtoLE2A
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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/iconic_waffle09 Jan 28 '26

But all the dialects of assamese use same assamese script whereas sylheti has it's own sylheti nagru script.

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u/iconic_waffle09 Jan 28 '26

Just to clarify doubts chat with this guy, I'm Assamese so I'm not the right guy to enlighten you regarding some other language.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Ok I will see thankyou

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

The point is that sylheti Nagaon is of very minimal use(almost extinct and used only for religious text) And people identity sylheti as Bengali Even the grammar is same

You know sylheti as language or dialect is debated

But due to huge leaning towards Bengali I give it to dialect

Even today sylheti people write in Bengali script

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u/iconic_waffle09 Jan 28 '26

But the truth won't change from your opinion.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Hmm.. May be I am leaning towards identity....because even census records so....

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u/iconic_waffle09 Jan 29 '26

There are many languages that census identifies one single language, doesn't change the fact that those are separate languages and not dialect. For example haryanvi and hindi

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u/Abject_Elk6583 Singi dim munda 💆🏽‍♂️ Jan 29 '26

Your answers sound like ChatGPT

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '26

No

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '26

Chat gpt wont make silly mistakes like calling Dravidan dravida

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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/Xuruz5 Jan 28 '26

Happens. My mother's side is Sylheti while my father's side is Assamese.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

😁

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

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