Sylhetis
| ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ | |
|---|---|
| Total population | |
| 14 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
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Sylhet Division (Bangladesh) Barak Valley (India) Shillong (India) Tripura, India |
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| Languages | |
| Sylheti, Bengali, English, Hindi | |
| Religion | |
| Hinduism, Islam, Christian | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Indo-Aryan peoples |
The Sylhetis (Sylheti: ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ Silôṭi) or Sylheti people are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group who speak the Sylheti language which is either considered as a dialect of Bengali or as a separate language due to significant differences between them and lack of mutual intelligibility. They are native to the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh and the Barak Valley, India with sizable population in Shillong, Meghalaya and Tripura, India.
Sylhetology is a deductive method of studying the ancient history of Sylhet, hypothesising the tradition of oral history and comparing with written history and archaeological findings to reach a rational conclusion. Sylhetology as a form of proposed by a London-based polymath on 25 May 2015.
Sylheti Ethnicity is also known as Sylheti Jati in popular form; it includes peoples from Barak Valley in Southern Assam, India and Surma Valley or Sylhet Division, Bangladesh. Sylheti Jati includes peoples from different religious denominations including Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Pagans and Atheists. A perception runs wild in Bangladesh that people of Sylhet are planning in connivance with India to carve out an independent state of Sylhet consisting of South Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, greater Mymensingh, greater Dhaka, greater Comilla, greater Noakhali, greater Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts with the epicentre at the city of Sylhet. This myth was concocted in an anonymous group or individual(s) in London and it led to consequential suppression of Sylheti Jati in Bangladesh. Sylheti Jati is gaining wider recognition and momentum outside of Bangladesh and India due to growing human conscious and prevalence of human rights in European countries, particularly in the UK, and the USA. Sylheti as a Jati is promoted by Sylhetologists and human rights activists.
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