What country is the majority of Sylheti language speakers located?
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Sylheti language Sylheti (Sylheti: ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ "Silôṭi") is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language, primarily spoken by Sylheti people in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh and in India in Meghalaya, the northern part of Tripura, and the southern part of Assam.
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Sylhetis The Sylhetis (Sylheti: ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ , Bengali: সিলেটি ) are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group of people who speak the Sylheti language and are native to the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh and the Barak Valley of the Indian state of Assam, with a sizeable population in Shillong, Meghalaya and Tripura of India and in London, United Kingdom. They are described as being both synonymous with Bengalis as well as a separate ethnic group due to historical isolation and lack of mutual intelligibility between their languages.
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West Bengal West Bengal ( ) is an Indian state located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal. It is India's fourth most populous state, with over 91million inhabitants (as of 2011). It has an area of 88752 km2 . A part of the ethno-linguistic Bengal region, it is bordered by Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north; it shares borders with five Indian states: Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata (Calcutta), the seventh-largest city in India. As for geography, West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, and the coastal Sundarbans. The main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.
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Culture of Laos Laos developed its culture and customs as the inland crossroads of trade and migration in Southeast Asia over millennia. As of 2012 Laos has a population of roughly 6.4 million spread over 236,800 km (91,400 sq miles), yielding one of the lowest population densities in Asia. Yet the country of Laos has an official count of over forty-seven ethnicities divided into 149 sub-groups and 80 different languages. The Lao Loum have throughout the country’s history comprised the ethnic and linguistic majority. In Southeast Asia, traditional Lao culture is considered one of the Indic cultures (along with Burma, Thailand and Cambodia).
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Bodish languages The Bodish languages, named for the Tibetan ethnonym "Bod", are the Tibetic languages in a broad linguistic sense, regardless of whether the speakers are considered ethnically Tibetan. Different scholars divide Bodish differently, but the alternate term "Tibetan" generally excludes East Bodish. Languages in this subgroup are spoken in Tibet, North India, Nepal, Bhutan, and North Pakistan.
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Singri (singiri) Singri is the last name or family name of the people who hail from a place called "Singiri" in South India. There are many other places with same name as Singiri, for example in Orissa (a state in North India), in Tanzania etc., which have no bearing on the last name as referred to in this article. Many people use the short form Singri instead of Singiri. This creates another conundrum, a place in Iran is called Singri. Singiri is a small hamlet close to Vellore, a city in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India.
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Hindustani people Hindustani or Hindavi people are a panethnicity primarily living in the Hindi belt region of India, which is located in the Gangetic Plain of North India, between the Himalayas and the Vindhyas, identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds.
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Culture of Sri Lanka The culture of Sri Lanka mixes modern elements with traditional aspects and is known for its regional diversity. Sri Lankan culture has long been influenced by the heritage of Theravada Buddhism passed on from India, and the religion's legacy is particularly strong in Sri Lanka's southern and central regions. South Indian cultural influences are especially pronounced in the northernmost reaches of the country. The history of colonial occupation has also left a mark on Sri Lanka's identity, with Portuguese, Dutch, and British elements having intermingled with various traditional facets of Sri Lankan culture. Culturally, Sri Lanka, particularly the Sinhalese people, possesses strong links to both India and Southeast Asia.
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Indonesia Indonesia ( or ; Indonesian: ), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: "Republik Indonesia" ), is a unitary sovereign state and transcontinental country located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania. Situated between the Indian and Pacific oceans, it is the world's largest island country, with more than seventeen thousand islands. At 1,904,569 km2 , Indonesia is the world's 14th-largest country in terms of land area and world's 7th-largest country in terms of combined sea and land area. It has an estimated population of over floor( /1e6) million people and is the world's fourth most populous country, the most populous Austronesian nation, as well as the most populous Muslim-majority country. The world's most populous island, Java, contains more than half of the country's population.
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Sri Lankan diaspora The Sri Lankan diaspora are Sri Lankan emigrants from Sri Lanka, and their descendants, that reside in a foreign country. They number a total estimated population of around 3 Million.
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Languages of Sri Lanka Several languages are spoken in Sri Lanka within the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Austronesian families. Sri Lanka accords official status to Sinhalese and Tamil. The languages spoken on the island nation are deeply influenced by the languages of neighbouring India, the Maldives and Malaysia. Arab settlers and the colonial powers of Portugal, the Netherlands and Britain have also influenced the development of modern languages in Sri Lanka.
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Byangsi language Byangsi (also called Byansi, Byãsi, Byangkho Lwo, Byanshi, Bhotia, and Byangkhopa) is a West Himalayish language of India and Nepal. Estimates of numbers of speakers vary, but some sources say that the language is spoken by about 1,000-1,500 people, while others estimate as many as 3,300. Byangsi is from a region of high language density, that is to say that there are many languages among few people. It is the most dominant language in Uttarkhand, although it is not widely known outside of its small hill district and those who speak it have difficulty classifying themselves for central government dealings.
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Bhatri language Bhatri is an Indic language spoken in Chhattisgarh, India.
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Malayali The Malayali or Malayalee (Malayalam: മലയാളി / കേരളീയര്‍ ) is the term given since Indian Independence to the natives of the South Indian state of Kerala and the Union Territory of Lakshadweep. They have the Malayalam language as their mother tongue. The Malayali community in India has a history of immigration to the region from various parts of the world, as well as a unique sub-culture owing to the tropical environment of the state.
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Bengali–Assamese numerals Bengali–Assamese numerals or Eastern Nagari numerals (Bengali: সংখ্যা "shôngkha"), (Assamese: সংখ্যা "xoiŋkha"), (Sylheti: ꠘꠝꠛꠞ "nombor") are the numeral system used in Bengali, Sylheti, Assamese, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Chakma, Hajong and Meithei languages. It is used by more than 350 million people around the world or 5% of the world's population. The Bengali–Assamese numerals have more dominant usage in the Bengali and Assamese languages, unlike the dominant usage of Hindu-Arabic numerals in most of the other world languages.
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Barua (Bangladesh) Barua (Bengali: বড়ুয়া "Boṛua") is the last name of a distinct Bengali-speaking Indo-Aryan ethno-religious minority group native to Chittagong Division in Bangladesh, Rakhine State in Myanmar, where they are known as the Maramagyi, and parts of Tripura in northeast India. The Barua Buddhists are the ancient peoples of Bangladesh who have lived there for five thousand years according to Arakanese chronology.
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Sri Lankan Malays Malays of Sri Lanka (also known in Sinhalese language as "Ja Minissu" meaning "Javanese" (Sinhalese: ශ්රී ලාංකික මැලේ "Sri Lankika Mælay" ; Tamil: இலங்கை மலாய் ) - a catch-all term historically used for all native of the Malay Archipelago) originated in Southeast Asia. The group consists of about 40,000 people and they make up 0.20% of the Sri Lankan population. Their ancestors initially came to the country when both Sri Lanka and Indonesia were colonies of the Dutch, while a second wave (1796–1948) came from the Malay Peninsula, when both Malaya and Sri Lanka were in the British Empire.
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Kurukh language Kurukh (also Kurux and Oraon or Uranw; Devanagari: कुड़ुख़) is a Dravidian language spoken by nearly two million Oraon and Kisan tribal peoples of Odisha and surrounding areas of India (Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and West Bengal), as well as by 50,000 in northern Bangladesh, 28,600 a dialect called Dhangar in Nepal, and about 5,000 in Bhutan. It is most closely related to Brahui and Malto (Paharia). The language is marked as being in a "vulnerable" state in UNESCO's list of endangered languages.
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Sotho language Sotho (Sesotho; also known as Southern Sotho, or Southern "Sesotho") is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana (S.30) group, spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages, and in Lesotho, where it is the national language.
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Nihali language Nihali, also known as Nahali or erroneously as Kalto, is a threatened language isolate that is spoken in west-central India (in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra), with approximately 2,000 people in 1991 out of an ethnic population of 5,000. The Nihali tribal area is just south of the Tapti River, around the village of Tembi in Nimar district of Central Provinces during British Raj, now in Madhya Pradesh. Speakers of the Nihali language are also present in several villages of the Buldhana district in Maharashtra such as Jamod, Sonbardi, Kuvardev, Chalthana, Ambavara, Wasali, and Cicari. There are dialectal differences between the Kuvardev-Chalthana and the Jamod-Sonbardi varieties.
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Eastern South Asia Eastern South Asia is a subregion of South Asia. It includes the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India (specifically east India and northeast India), and Nepal. Geographically, it lies between the Eastern Himalayas and the Bay of Bengal. Two of the world's largest rivers, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, flow into the sea through Eastern South Asia. The region includes the world's highest mountainous terrain and the world's largest delta, and has a climate ranging from alpine and subalpine to subtropical and tropical. Since Nepal, Bhutan, and northeast India are landlocked, the coastlines of Bangladesh and East India serve as the principal gateways to the region.
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Munda languages The Munda languages are a language family spoken by about nine million people in central and eastern India and Bangladesh. They constitute a branch of the Austroasiatic language family, which means they are related to languages such as Mon and Khmer languages and Vietnamese, as well as minority languages in Thailand, Laos and Southern China. The origins of the Munda languages are not known, but they predate the other languages of eastern India. Ho, Mundari, and Santali are notable languages of this group.