Oral literature, orature, or folk literature is a genre of literature that is spoken or sung in contrast to that which is written, though much oral literature...

centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting...

It is a medium of communication for a society to transmit oral history, oral literature, oral law and other knowledge across generations without a writing...

African literature is literature from Africa, either oral ("orature") or written in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. Examples of pre-colonial African...

Folk performing arts – including dances, plays, and dramas. Folk (oral) literature – including epics, songs, and myths. Folk graphic and plastic arts...

the history of Ainu oral literature study. Japanese linguist Kyosuke Kindaichi is also famous for his work on the oral literature of the Ainu languages...

significant groups of Laki oral literature are religious oral literature and astronomical literature. The first group includes Shia oral hymns and Yarsan songs...

to literature: Literature – prose, written or oral, including fiction and non-fiction, drama, and poetry. See also the Outline of poetry. Literature can...

sources of Philippine mythologies are oral and written literature. Oral literature (also known as folk literature) consists of stories are passed down...

of Indian literature were orally transmitted. Sanskrit literature begins with the oral literature of the Rig Veda, a collection of literature dating to...

Traditional Ottawa stories fall into two general categories, aasookaan 'legend, sacred story' (plural aasookaanag) and dbaajmowin 'narrative, story' (plural...

dictation from an oral performance. Milman Parry and Albert Lord have argued that the Homeric epics, the earliest works of Western literature, were fundamentally...

of civilization in their creation myth. Later, once written literature overtook the oral recitation of epics, Plato made reference in his Euthydemus to...

the divine world from which they come or change into benevolent powers. In oral tales and myths in West Africa, the enfant terrible can be a single character...

tablets, papyri, palm leaves, and metal. Before the spread of writing, oral literature did not always survive well, but some texts and fragments have persisted...

Consonants in word-initial position are as follows: All simple nasals, oral stops apart from q and glottal, and the sonorants l r y w may be geminated...

Oral storytelling is an ancient and intimate tradition between the storyteller and their audience. The storyteller and the listeners are physically close...

relationships between written and spoken literature in some societies can make this definition hard to maintain. Oral poetry is sometimes considered to include...

people), with elements incorporated into the storytelling.: 6  As oral literature, the poem is believed to have originated in pre-colonial times, evolving...

The earliest works of Malaysian literature were transmitted orally in the absence of writing scripts. Oral literature encompasses a variety of genres...

folk literature refers to the traditional oral literature of the Filipino people. Thus, the scope of the field covers the ancient folk literature of the...

expository, argumentative, functional, and opinion pieces; essays on art or literature; biographies; memoirs; journalism; and historical, scientific, technical...

Literature Oral literature Folklore fable fairy tale folk play folksong heroic epic legend myth proverb Oration Performance audiobook spoken word Saying...

literature was primarily oral. Major oral literary forms include folktales, poems, riddles, proverbs, and songs. The majority of the oral literature in...

the Naxi language, but are used as a mnemonic for the recitation of oral literature. Some systems also use indicatives, which denote abstract concepts...

in other forms of Sanskrit. Early works of Sanskrit literature were transmitted through an oral tradition for centuries before they were written down...

consonant and vowel /j/ has an allophone [ɲ] before nasal vowels Ga has seven oral vowels and five nasal vowels. All of the vowels have three different vowel...

several of which can be found in the encyclopedic Compendium of Korean Oral Literature (한국 구비문학 대계/韓國口碑文學). The old Chinese text Classic of Mountains and...

especially with non-English writings. Fables have existed through oral literature since ancient times, and praise poems became a common way to recount...

into any large state-like structure. Ethnological studies point to oral literature which tells that the Dagaaba periodically, and ultimately successfully...