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Caption: Browse nearly 2,000 books written in 37 international languages.

World Languages

Connect to the world around you with this collection of over 2,000 books and audiobooks in almost 40 different languages.

Arabic
Bengali
Chinese
Cree (American Native)
Czech
Farsi (Persian)
French
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Indonesian
Inuktitut (Inuit dialect)
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latin

Michif (Creole)
Nepali
Ojibwe
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Pushto
Russian
Somali
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tamil
Thai
Turkish
Urdu
Vietnamese
World (multiple languages)
Yiddish
Yoruba

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Hello world : a celebration of languages and curiosities

Jonathan Litton

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Boy dumplings : a tasty Chinese tale

Ying Chang Compestine

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Sora and the cloud = Sora to kumo

Felicia Hoshino

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Hace sol = It's sunny

Celeste Bishop

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Gallaydii nasiibka lahayd = The lucky grain of corn

Véronique Tadjo

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Buuga ka halaya wajiyaaga = My face book

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Time to pray

Maha Addasi

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My colors = Mis colores

Rebecca Emberley

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Say hola to Spanish, otra vez

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Les récrés du petit Nicolas

1926-1977. author Goscinny

About the Gujarati Collection

Did you know that there is an active and vibrant population of over 800 families in the Central Ohio area who speak Gujarati as their native language? Donated from the personal collection of Ruma Shelat, nearly 100 books have been added to the world languages collection featuring fictional and classical works in the Gujarati language. Browse the collection.

With a tradition of informally passing books among members of the Gujarati-speaking community, this addition to the library's world languages collection will help increase exposure to the Gujarati language and expand access to Central Ohioans interested in learning more about the culture, customs and traditions of Gujarat.

Originating from the Indian state of Gujarat, there are over 50 million speakers of the Gujarat language in India (as of 2011). In 2008, Columbus became the first sister city for Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat through the Greater Columbus Sister Cities Program. For more information, visit Haalo Re Gujarat.