Sylheti Nagari

Sylheti Nagari Silôṭi Nagri ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ
Type	Abugida
Languages	Sylheti, Bengali
Time period	14th-20th Century
Direction	Left-to-right
ISO 15924	Sylo, 316
Unicode alias	Syloti Nagri
Unicode range	U+A800–U+A82F

Sylheti Nagari or Jalalabadi Nagri (Silôṭi Nagôri) is the original script used for writing the Sylheti language. It is an almost extinct script, this is because the Sylheti Language itself was reduced to only dialect status 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

Vowels

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

Consonants

• 27 consonants

Sample Text

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

Unicode

Main article: Syloti Nagri (Unicode block)

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 Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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U+A80x

ꠀ

ꠁ

ꠂ

ꠃ

ꠄ

ꠅ

꠆

ꠇ

ꠈ

ꠉ

ꠊ

ꠋ

ꠌ

ꠍ

ꠎ

ꠏ

U+A81x

ꠐ

ꠑ

ꠒ

ꠓ

ꠔ

ꠕ

ꠖ

ꠗ

ꠘ

ꠙ

ꠚ

ꠛ

ꠜ

ꠝ

ꠞ

ꠟ

U+A82x

ꠠ

ꠡ

ꠢ

ꠣ

ꠤ

ꠥ

ꠦ

ꠧ

꠨

꠩

꠪

꠫

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 9.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

External links

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