In a function held at South Fletcher’s library in Brampton nine books in different languages were launched on the occasion of Canadian multicultural day.
The occasion was jointly inaugurated by Adele Kostiak CEO of Brampton Library, and Janice Awde, Chair of the board. Nine languages were added to the existing 13 languages including Bengali, Croatian, Korean, Malayalam, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Sinhalese and Turkish. The existing 13 languages are Arabic, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Spanish, Tamil, Tagalog, Urdu and Vietnamese. Sarala Uttangi, Coordinator Multicultural Services introduced and gave a description of the different languages and welcome the gathering. A representative from each language spoke few lines from a book in their language .Harikumar resident of Brampton introduced Malayalam by reading few lines from the renowned writer of Malayalam & English Late Madhavikkutty.
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