Kannada Sangha Queensland Inc. Launches Brisbane Kannada Shale

CHErMsiDE, on Sunday, 5th February, Kannada Sangha Queensland Inc. inaugurated their language school, Brisbane Kannada Shale. The inauguration took place in Chermside library.

President Sneha Rajkumar said, “we are starting low-key and hope to grow big in the coming years” Umesh Chandra OAM and Mrs Usha Chandra Attended the inauguration as honoured guests. Umesh Chandra OAM spoke on the importance of the mother language and congratulated Kannada Sangha for this initiative, and he also thanked the parents for their support and stressed the importance of s cohesive community where every language and culture can coexist in harmony

Kannada is a Dravidian language, a different language family from the Indo-European or Aryan languages of the north, such as Hindi but close to the other southern languages like Telugu. It has about 3000 years of written history.

The first version is known as the Old Kannada script. By about 3000, it had morphed into the Kannada and Telugu scripts. Printing presses introduced by Christian missionaries at the beginning of the 19th century standardised the Kannada and Telugu scripts.