Sylheti Nagari

Sylheti Nagari or Jalalabadi Nagri (Silôṭi Nagôri) is the original script used for writing the Sylheti language. It is an almost extinct script, this is because the Sylheti Language itself was reduced to only dialect status after Bangladesh gained independence and because it did not make sense for a dialect to have its own script, its use was heavily discouraged. The government of the newly formed Bangladesh did so to promote a greater "Bengali" identity. This led to the informal adoption of the Eastern Nagari script also used for Bengali and Assamese. It is also known as Jalalabadi Nagri, Mosolmani Nagri, Ful Nagri etc.

Sylheti symbols

Vowels

• 5 independent vowels
• 5 dependent vowel signs attached to a consonant letter

Consonants

• 27 consonants

Sample Text

Front page of a Nagri book titled "Halot-un-Nobi", written in the mid nineteenth century by Sadeq Ali of Sylhet

Unicode

Sylheti Nagari was added to the Unicode Standard in March, 2005 with the release of version 4.1.

The Unicode block for Sylheti Nagari is U+A800–U+A82F:

References

External links

• A full archive
• Omniglot
• Description of the script