{"id":72814,"date":"2012-07-23T21:04:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T05:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/?p=7571"},"modified":"2012-07-23T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T05:04:06","slug":"does-sylheti-bengali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/23\/does-sylheti-bengali\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Sylheti = Bengali?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cousin posted this on Facebook. <strong>The strange issue here is that the language here is very different from standard Bengali, and in fact, more diverged than most regional Bengali dialects.<\/strong> I have a very difficult time understanding it. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sylheti_language#Grammar_conflict_between_Sylheti_and_Bengali\">Sylheti<\/a>. In case you don&#8217;t know, <strong>most Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom are from Sylhet.<\/strong> When I was in London a few years back I couldn&#8217;t understand many of the &#8220;Bangladeshis&#8221; talking on the street. In contrast, in Bologna or New York I can understand Bangladeshis on the stret.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o3HsChp7lnM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"290\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd a2a_target addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brownpundits.com%2F2012%2F07%2F24%2Fdoes-sylheti-bengali%2F&amp;title=Does%20Sylheti%20%3D%20Bengali%3F\" id=\"wpa2a_18\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cousin posted this on Facebook. The strange issue here is that the language here is very different from standard Bengali, and in fact, more diverged than most regional Bengali dialects. I have a very difficult time understanding it. It&#8217;s &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/2012\/07\/24\/does-sylheti-bengali\/\">Continue reading <span>&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladeshi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72814"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73912,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72814\/revisions\/73912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}