| Yarlton College யாழ்ற்ரன் கல்லூரி | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
| Alady Karainagar, Jaffna District , Northern Province Sri Lanka | |
| Coordinates | 9°44′35.10″N79°52′18.80″E / 9.7430833°N 79.8718889°E Coordinates: 9°44′35.10″N79°52′18.80″E / 9.7430833°N 79.8718889°E |
| Information | |
| School type | Public provincial 1AB |
| School district | Islands Education Zone |
| Authority | Northern Provincial Council |
| School number | 1005020 |
| Principal | V. Murugamoorthy |
| Teaching staff | 39 |
| Grades | 1-13 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Age range | 5-18 |
| Language | Tamil |
| School roll | 611 |
| Website | yarlton.sch.lk |
Yarlton College (Tamil : யாழ்ற்ரன் கல்லூரிYāḻṟraṉ Kallūri) is a provincial school in Karainagar, Sri Lanka. [1] [2]
Tamil is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka, and by the Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Moors, Douglas, and Chindians. Tamil is an official language of two countries: Sri Lanka and Singapore and official language of the Indian state Tamil Nadu. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry. It is used as one of the languages of education in Malaysia, along with English, Malay and Mandarin. Tamil is spoken by significant minorities in the four other South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India.
Karainagar is located 20 km from Jaffna, Sri Lanka, on the Karaitivu (Island). In Tamil, means a place with abundant Kaarai trees.
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea. The island is historically and culturally intertwined with the Indian subcontinent, but is geographically separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. The legislative capital, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, is a suburb of the commercial capital and largest city, Colombo.
