Sylheti (Syloti) Alphabet and Numbers

Description

This book is being intended to serve as a basic teaching book for the Sylheti Language Alphabet and Numbers. It seeks to develop an understanding of the concepts based on careful study.

Salient Features:

• It is easy to understand and requires no previous knowledge.
• It has a balanced focus on traditional learning methods along with attractive graphical images.
• It covers the Sylheti Alphabet having an easy-to-understand framing format with the arrow marking system.
• It covers the Sylheti Numbers with understandable signs.
• There are some relatable conversation fragments in the Sylheti for nice learning.
• It covers consonants, and conjunct consonants along with punctuation, vowels, and vowels diacritics.
• It also covers some needy learning sessions over the general life-related sections as days, months, seasons, food, colours, etc. in the Sylheti.
• A needy exercise session is also there at the end of the book to check your learning phase.

The main reason for us to publish this is:

• To make it available for people to be able to teach future generations and provide learning resources for the children.
• Save the language and help people to understand that the Sylheti is a separate language and fight against racism on the ground of language.

Why are you teaching our children in Sylhet that "our mother tongue is Bengali/Bangla," when in fact our mother tongue is Sylheti/Syloti?

"Our mother barely understands Bengali (Bangla) and we hardly speak Bengali, remember the fact that the Sylheti language is dying, and we need to save."