Long before the written language appeared, there was an oral tradition of tales of fables and legends.

早在文字出现之前，有寓言和神话传说的口头传统。

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By keeping all their lore alive in an oral tradition the Garou have retained a sense of continuity that binds each generation to the next.

穿过口头解说他们的知识始终传播下来，因而狼人们一代又一代的保存了对事务的见解。

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The greater part of folk poetry is folk song which is an oral tradition passed on from mouth to mouth . it is a communal form of expression and appears to be universal.

民间诗歌很大一部分是民歌，这是一种口头流传的文化传统，一种公共的表达方式，似乎世界各地都普遍采用。

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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.

UNESCO: Culture

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.

BBC: Decorated manuscript