Sylheti phonology

Syloti is distinguished by a wide range of fricative consonants corresponding to aspirated consonants in closely related languages and dialects such as Bengali; a lack of the breathy voiced stops; word-final stress; and a relatively large set of loanwords from Arabic, Persian and Assamese. Syloti has affected the course of Standard Bengali in the rest of the state.

A notable characteristic of spoken Sylheti is the correspondence of the (from hereby transliterated as x), pronounced as an Voiceless epiglottal fricative to the, or "sh", of Bengali, e.g.