In addition to Bangla, some schools in Great Britain have included Sylheti on the list of students' native languages. Many British students from Sylheti families are unable to speak standard Bangla.
When people discover that my family originates from Sylhet, the first question they ask me is if I speak the Sylheti language. The regional dialect of the Sylhet division is so distinct from the ...
Sourjyo Sinha and Rohit Ganesh are Dindun, a Kolkata-based duo who perform in Sylheti, Assamese, Bengali and English. The band will be at two venues in Bengaluru this month — at The Raft with Alva ...
Chittagonian and Sylheti language have been ranked one of the 100 most spoken languages in the world. In an article published on Saturday, visual-content provider Visual Capitalist ranked Chittagonian ...
Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. It was with familiar fondness that I watched Barbara figure out how to communicate with her Sylheti patient. I ...
It was Michael H. Fisher's 2004 book Counterflows to Colonialism that first alerted its readers to the history of people from the Indian subcontinent visiting or settling down in England as early as ...