Sylheti Nagri

Sylheti Nagri
ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ
Sylheti Nāgarī
Sylheti Nagri; ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ; Sylheti Nāgarī
	Sylheti Nagari alphabet
Script type	Abugida
Time period	c. 15th century CE to present
Direction	Left-to-right
Region	Bangladesh Greater Sylhet; Greater Mymensingh; Greater Noakhali; India Barak Valley, Assam; Bankura, West Bengal;
Languages	Middle Bengali, Sylheti
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic[a] Brāhmī Gupta Siddham Nāgarī Kaithi script Sylheti Nagri; ; ; ; ; ;
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Sylo (316), Syloti Nagri
Unicode
Unicode alias	Syloti Nagri
Unicode range	U+A800–U+A82F
	[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.
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Sylheti Nagri or Sylheti Nāgarī (Sylheti: ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ, síloṭi nagri, pronounced [sílɔʈi nagɾi]), known in classical manuscripts as Sylhet Nagri (ꠍꠤꠟꠦꠐ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ) as well as by many other names, is an Indic script of the Brahmic family, used to write the Sylheti language.^[5]^[6] The script was historically used in areas of Bengal and Assam that were east of the Padma,^[7] primarily in the eastern part of the Sylhet region, to document Muslim religious poetry known as puthis; having no presence in formal documentations.^[6] In the course of the 20th century, it has lost much ground to the standardised Eastern Nagari script. Printing presses for Sylheti Nagri existed as late as into the 1970s, and in the 2000s a Unicode font was created for the script.^[8]

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^ Daniels, Peter T. (2008). "Writing systems of major and minor languages". In Kachru, Braj B.; Kachru, Yamuna; Sridhar, S. N. (eds.). Language in South Asia. Cambridge University Press. p. 291. ISBN 978-0-521-78141-1.
^ Masica, Colin (1993). The Indo-Aryan languages. p. 143.
^ "Documentation in support of proposal for encoding Syloti Nagri in the BMP" (PDF). unicode.org. 1 November 2002. p. 5. In the opinion of Qadir (1999) and of Professor Clifford Wright of SOAS (personal communication), Syloti Nagri is a form of Kaithi, a script (or family of scripts) which belongs to the main group of North Indian scripts.
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^ Constable, Peter; Lloyd-Williams, James; Lloyd-Williams, Sue; Chowdhury, Shamsul Islam; Ali, Asaddor; Sadique, Mohammed; Chowdhury, Matiar Rahman (1 November 2002). "Proposal for Encoding Syloti Nagri Script in the BMP" (PDF).

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[daniels-2] Daniels, Peter T. (2008). "Writing systems of major and minor languages". In Kachru, Braj B.; Kachru, Yamuna; Sridhar, S. N. (eds.). Language in South Asia. Cambridge University Press. p. 291. ISBN 978-0-521-78141-1.

[masica-3] Masica, Colin (1993). The Indo-Aryan languages. p. 143.

[unicode2-4] "Documentation in support of proposal for encoding Syloti Nagri in the BMP" (PDF). unicode.org. 1 November 2002. p. 5. In the opinion of Qadir (1999) and of Professor Clifford Wright of SOAS (personal communication), Syloti Nagri is a form of Kaithi, a script (or family of scripts) which belongs to the main group of North Indian scripts.

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[unicode-8] Constable, Peter; Lloyd-Williams, James; Lloyd-Williams, Sue; Chowdhury, Shamsul Islam; Ali, Asaddor; Sadique, Mohammed; Chowdhury, Matiar Rahman (1 November 2002). "Proposal for Encoding Syloti Nagri Script in the BMP" (PDF).

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