spoken tradition
Passed-down oral lore
Spoken tradition is the practice of passing knowledge, stories, customs, and history from generation to generation through speech rather than writing.
Cultures without written languages preserve their heritage this way: The epic survived through spoken tradition for centuries before anyone wrote it down.
Also called oral tradition.
- storyAccount of events
- campfire storyTale told outdoors at night
- bedtime storyTale told at tuck-in
- mythTraditional explanatory tale
- legendUnverified traditional tale
voice · storytelling · chant · sacred chant · oral history · collective memory · word of mouth · ancestral knowledge · folklore · recitation · elder wisdom · proverb · prayer · parable · griot · epic · oral transmission · passing down
spoken traditionwritten record
written tradition · literary tradition · scripture · literacy · published works
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