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Sylheti or Syloti (ছিলটী silôti/সিলেটী Sileti) is an often regarded Bengali dialect primarily spoken in the Sylhet region of north east Bangladesh and Barak Valley region of south Assam. It has commonly been regarded as a Bengali dialect or similar language to Standard Bengali with which it shares a high proportion of vocabulary (Spratt and Spratt (1987) report 70% shared vocabulary while Chalmers (1996) reports at least 80%).

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