Similarities between Urdu and Sylheti: 2 Indo-Aryan languages

Urdu and Sylheti are both Indo-Aryan languages. They are descendants of Sanskrit, which is an Indo-Iranian language. They are all a part of the Indo-European family tree. Urdu and Sylheti are sometimes considered to be languages in their own right, and sometimes considered to be dialects of Hindustani and Bengali.

Urdu originates from India, and there are more Urdu speakers in India than in Pakistan. However, Urdu is the only official language of Pakistan. India largely uses Hindi, a Sanskritized register of Hindustani, for legal purposes. Sylheti is native to the Greater Sylhet area, split between India and Bangladesh. It is spoken in parts of Bangladesh and India, notably in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh and Barak Valley, India. There are also diaspora groups that speak Sylheti and Urdu as their native languages. Urdu has roughly 70 million speakers and Sylheti has roughly 11 million speakers.

In this video, we do not distinguish between words derived from Sanskrit and other languages, such as Persian. Persian-derived words are largely present in this video, however. Persian was the official language and lingua franca of South Asia for many centuries and has played a large role in both languages. Urdu was also the official language in parts of Sylhet for centuries as the official language of the Mughal Empire and Pakistan. There are two dialects of Urdu spoken in Bangladesh today: Bihari Urdu and Dhakaiya Urdu.

[kalimuddinrukon]

Jaan is Zaan in Syloti.
'J' becomes 'Z' in Syloti most of the time.

[abiebenyaminshah]

Nicely explained.
In ancient times there was a high influence of Urdu in Syloti but unfortunately it's replacing to Bengali influence day by day.

[SylhetiToArabic]

This is awesome, well done! Do you have any other words?