Sylheti Nagari

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Sylheti Nagari or Syloti Nagri (Silôṭi Nagôri) is the original script used for writing the Sylheti language. It is an almost extinct script, as the Sylheti language is currently written in the Eastern Nagari script also used for Bengali and Assamese. It is also known as Jalalabadi Nagri, Musalmani Nagri, Phul Nagri etc.

[edit] Sylheti symbols

[edit] Vowels

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

[edit] Modifiers

[edit] Consonants

• 27 consonants

[edit] Digits

[edit] Sylheti Nagari in Unicode

The Unicode range for Sylheti Nagari is U+A800–U+A82F. Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points.

Similarities between Nagri Unicode and Bangla

[edit] Sample Text

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

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Omniglot
• Description of the script
• Writing codas, from Sylhet to Winnipeg

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