ISO 639-3 · sylsyl
Indo-European family
Sylheti
ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ ꠜꠣꠡꠣ
Sylheti is a language of the Bengali–Assamese branch (Indo-European), spoken in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and United Kingdom and 12 more countries. Wikidata counts 12 m first-language speakers (2023) and 10 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “Indo-Aryan language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
syl- Glottocode
sylh1242- Family
- Indo-European
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Wikipedia
- 199 language editions
12 mfirst-language speakers
10 msecond-language speakers
16countries
4scripts
5levels in the tree
3EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Sylheti · ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ ꠜꠣꠡꠣ |
|---|---|
| Also called | Syloti, Syloti language, Sylhetti, Sylhetti language, Sylheti language |
| L1 speakers | 12,000,000 (2020) |
| L2 speakers | 10,000,000 (2020) |
| All speakers | 13,980,000 (2023) |
| Written in | Sylheti Nagari, Bangla–Assamese script, Latin script, Devanagari |
| Grammatical cases | 4 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 3 Wider Communication3
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Sylheti
The branches above Sylheti, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Bangladesh37 languages in the indexIndia395 languages in the indexMyanmar86 languages in the indexUnited Kingdom25 languages in the indexAustralia351 languages in the indexCanada112 languages in the indexItaly39 languages in the indexSingapore21 languages in the indexUnited States245 languages in the indexMalaysia113 languages in the indexQatar4 languages in the indexSaudi Arabia12 languages in the indexUnited Arab Emirates11 languages in the indexOman17 languages in the indexKuwait5 languages in the indexBahrain8 languages in the index
Also spoken in Bangladesh
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