EHON LIBRARY
EHON LIBRARY
EHON LIBRARYは、文字通り「絵本の図書館」です。
このサイトは、語学おたくである私が個人的に集めている世界中の絵本を、
一つずつご紹介するためのものです。
世界には、約6000ほどの言語があると言われています。
言語によって、使われている人口も、世界での影響力も異なります。
十分な教育素材や環境が整っていない言語も、世界には数多くあります。
絵本は、世界中の、様々な言語を話す人たちが、一番最初に手にする本たちです。
どんなに小さな言語でも、高度な専門書が手に入らないような言語でも、
絵本なら必ずあるのではないか、という考えから絵本を集め始めました。
まだまだこの図書館には、「大言語」と呼ばれる言語のものしかないかもしれません。
これからどんどん、少しずつ集めていくつもりです。
それぞれの絵本には、あらすじを可能な限り載せています。
将来的には、一部音声なんかも載せられたら楽しいなあなどと考えています。
EHON LIBRARY is a website designated to introduce children's books from all over the world.
(By the way, EHON means "picture book for children" in Japanese.)
On this website, I will introduce you children's books which I have collected so far while travelling abroad.
In this world, there are approximately 6000 spoken languages.
A handful languages are dominant and have a strong influence in the world,
whereas the majority of them are with very limited number of speakers or even almost endangered.
Only few languages have sufficient resources and systems in education in the language.
Children's books are among the first books which all people, regardless of which language they speak, pick up in their childhood.
Even in a very tiny language, there will be a children's book.
That is the reason why I started collecting these books.
In this online library, there may only be books in so-called dominant languages at the moment.
But I will continue to collect those in smaller languages as well, so please be patient.
I try to put a short description for each book with referring to various sources.
I hope to put some short audio file so that we can hear the real sound of the language, but we will see.
And for non-Japanese and non-English speakers,
I would love to make this website as multilingual as possible.
However, at the moment, I will write this website only in Japanese and English due to the workload.
Please receive my respect for all the other languages and thank you for the comprehension!