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 ...
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.
Turns out, the lady in the video is Dr. Anna Livingstone, a retired GP in Limehouse East London, who learnt how to speak Sylheti back in the 80s so that she can communicate with her patients. Sylheti ...
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 ...
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 ...
When BJP IT Cell chief Amit Malviya defended the Delhi Police's use of the term "Bangladeshi language" by claiming they meant Sylheti, he called it a dialect unintelligible to Indian Bengalis and ...
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 ...
Silchar: Leaders from various parties in the Barak Valley, including BJP, have criticised the party's IT cell head Amit Malviya for calling Sylheti, a dialect of Bengali, a "Bangladeshi language". The ...
The South Asian community has one of the highest levels of vaccine hesitancy in the UK, surveys suggest. More than 40% of Pakistani and Bangladeshi people say they are unlikely to get the jab, while ...
India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have been added to the government's red list of countries from which most travel to the UK is banned. No-one can travel from those South Asian countries to the UK unless ...
As more people get a coronavirus vaccine, they are also experiencing side effects, with studies suggesting it affects more than one in 10 people. It is normal to get side effects from vaccines, and ...