Particularly noteworthy among the musical repertory of the islanders is an oral tradition of pre-Christian origin, known as runic or Kalevala-metre songs.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

The Mongolian Tuuli is an oral tradition comprising heroic epics that run from hundreds to thousands of lines and combine benedictions, eulogies, spells, idiomatic phrases, fairy tales, myths and folk songs.

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Malian Ambassador to South Africa Sinaly Coulibaly said that while African history and culture were often associated with an oral tradition, the Timbuktu documents were a reminder that African knowledge comprises both a written and oral tradition.

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Jazz is really an oral tradition.

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Arab literature is an oral rather than written tradition.

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The link between bamboo and the famine is an established part of the Mizo oral tradition and suggest the rat population of the hills will multiply several times over.

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The committee praised him for preserving an oral record of tribal history in the tradition of West African griots.

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They are films that speak about modern life from an African perspective, driven by a narrative that is strongly rooted in the African oral storytelling tradition.

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