# Sylheti language
## Who is this course for?

This course is intended to teach the Sylheti language. This is a comprehensive course for people who want to develop linguistic (lexical, grammatical and phonetic) and communication skills in the Sylheti language.

## Name of the language

| Language | Native | Mundari (Austroasiatic) | Bengali | Hindi | Sanskrit |
| Original words | [silɔʈi] | [silhɛʈi] | [sileʈi] | [silahat] | [srihattia] |
| Anglicized spellings | Syloti | Sylheti | n/a | n/a | n/a |

## First contact

Let's dive straight into some simple Sylheti sentences to give you a first impression of how Sylheti is structured.
Sentence 1 : I speak Syloti.
| mu•i | si•lo•ṭi | ma•ti |
| (Subject) | (Direct Object) | (Verb) |
| (I) | (Syloti) | (speak) |
Note : The simple affirmative present tense Syloti sentence follows the Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order.
Sentence 2 : I do not speak Syloti.
| mu•i | si•lo•ṭi | ma•ti | naa |
| (Subject) | (Direct Object) | (Verb) | (Negative marker for present) |
| (I) | (Syloti) | (speak) | (not) |
Note : The simple negative present tense Sylheti sentence adds the negative marker -naa after the verb to make it negative.
Note :
1. As the subject changes from mui (I) to tumi (You), observe that the form of the present tense verb changes. To learn more about this, see Verbs

## List of Grammar Lessons (not in order)

* Lesson x. Pronouns
* Lesson x. Nouns
* Lesson x. Verbs
* Lesson x. Adjectives
* Lesson x. Adverbs
* Lesson x. Degree Modifiers for adjectives, adverbs and verbs
* Lesson x. Comparison with nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs
* Lesson x. Object Pronouns
* Lesson x. Word Order
* Lesson x. Postpositions
* Lesson x. Expressing temporal information (When or how often something happens)
* Lesson x. Expressing locative information (Where something happens)
* Lesson x. Expressing Obligation with Verb (modal auxiliary "zoruri")
* Lesson x. Expressing Possibility with Verb (modal auxiliary "fara")
* Lesson x. Expressing Ability or Knowhow with Verb (modal auxiliary "zana" or "fara")
* Lesson x. Expressing Want with Verb (modal auxiliary "saua")
* Lesson x. Expressing Need with Verb (modal auxiliary "dorkhar" or "laga")
* Lesson x. Expressing Cause (Why something happens)
* Lesson x. Expressing Consequence
* Lesson x. Expressing Goal (For what something happens)
* Lesson x. Expressing Opposition (how to say but, on the contrary, however, etc.)
* Lesson x. Expressing Addition of Ideas (how to say and, moreover, etc)
* Lesson x. Expressing Conditions (how to say if, unless, depends etc)
* Lesson x. Expressing Anteriority, Posteriority and Simultaneity (how to say before, after, during etc)
* Lesson x. Characterizing using relative clauses (how to add information using who, which, where, whose, that etc)
* Lesson x. Asking Questions

## List of Vocabulary Lessons (not in order)

* Lesson x. Greetings and basic polite expressions
* Lesson x. Numbers
* Lesson x. Measurements and Quantities
* Lesson x. Characteristics of Objects: Size, Shape, Material, Texture, Color
* Lesson x. Geography and nationalities
* Lesson x. Languages
* Lesson x. Human Body
* Lesson x. Movements, Gestures and Postures
* Lesson x. Cycle of Life
* Lesson x. Family
* Lesson x. Relationships
* Lesson x. Personal Information
* Lesson x. Daily activities
* Lesson x. Housing
* Lesson x. Appearance and Clothing
* Lesson x. Places in the city
* Lesson x. Directions
* Lesson x. Traveling, roads and transport
* Lesson x. Personal Objects
* Lesson x. Education
* Lesson x. Work and Workplaces
* Lesson x. Shops and shopping
* Lesson x. Vacation
* Lesson x. Leisure activities
* Lesson x. Animals
* Lesson x. Plants and Trees
* Lesson x. Food
* Lesson x. Eating out
* Lesson x. Cooking, Recipes and Gastronomy
* Lesson x. Shops and shopping
* Lesson x. Graphic Arts
* Lesson x. Theater
* Lesson x. Cinema
* Lesson x. Music
* Lesson x. Architecture
* Lesson x. Photography
* Lesson x. Sports and games
* Lesson x. Post office and other services
* Lesson x. Media
* Lesson x. Computers and Internet
* Lesson x. Books and literature
* Lesson x. Intellectual life
* Lesson x. Communication
* Lesson x. Feelings and Emotions
* Lesson x. Health and Medicine
* Lesson x. Fashion
* Lesson x. Money and Banking
* Lesson x. Character and Personality
* Lesson x. Science and Research
* Lesson x. Crime, Law and Justice
* Lesson x. Environment
* Lesson x. Weather and Climate
* Lesson x. Economy and Finances
* Lesson x. Politics
* Lesson x. Social Issues
* Lesson x. Morality
* Lesson x. Mind and psychology
* Lesson x. Time
* Lesson x. The Past
* Lesson x. The Future
* Lesson x. Belief and religion

## Appendices

* Appendix x. Foreign words

## See Also

Following resources can be helpful. It may give a basic understanding of Syloti (endonym) or Sylheti (exonym) - language and writing:
* Syloti-Nagri alphabet - Omniglot
* Syloti - Endangered Alphabets
* Sylheti phrases - Useful phrases in Sylheti
* Sylheti language lessons - SOAS University of London
* Sylheti numbers - Proposal to encode in Unicode.
* Learn Sylheti – Audio - Listen to basic words and sentences in Sylheti language
* Audio recordings available in Sylheti - Global Recordings Network