Sylheti Nagari

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Sylheti Nagari
Silôṭi Nagôri
Type Abugida
Spoken languages Sylheti, Bengali
Time period 16th-20th Century
Unicode range U+A800–U+A82F
ISO 15924 Sylo
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

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.

Contents

[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.

Syloti Nagari
Unicode.org chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
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 ꠣ ꠤ ꠥ ꠦ ꠧ ꠨ ꠩ ꠪ ꠫        
Similarities between Nagri Unicode and Bangla
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
Front page of a Nagri book titled "Halot-un-Nabi", written in the mid nineteenth century by Sadeq Ali of Sylhet

[edit] References

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