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Sylheti Nagari
Silôṭi Nagri
ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ
Script type
Time period
14th-20th Century
DirectionLeft-to-right Edit this on Wikidata
LanguagesSylheti, Bengali
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Sylo (316), ​Syloti Nagri
Unicode
Unicode alias
Syloti Nagri
U+A800–U+A82F
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Sylheti Nagari or Jalalabadi Nagri (Silôṭi Nagôri) is one of the many scripts used for writing the Sylheti language. It is an almost extinct script, this is because of development of Bengali scripts, more 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. Sylheti Nagari is also known as Jalalabadi Nagri, Mosolmani Nagri, Ful Nagri etc.

Sylheti symbols

Similarities between Nagri Unicode and Bangla

Vowels

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

Modifiers

Consonants

  • 27 consonants

Digits

Sample Text

Front page of a Nagri book titled "Halot-un-Nobi" (ꠢꠣꠟꠔꠥꠘ ꠘꠛꠤ), 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:

Syloti Nagri[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+A80x
U+A81x
U+A82x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

References

  • A full archive
  • Omniglot
  • Islam, Muhammad Ashraful (2012). "Sylheti Nagri". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.