oral tradition

English

Noun

oral tradition (countable and uncountable, plural oral traditions)

1. Cultural material transmitted orally from one generation to another.

Synonyms

• oral lore

Translations

cultural material transmitted orally from one generation to another

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口頭傳統／口头传统 (kǒutóu chuántǒng)

• Dutch: orale traditie f, mondelinge traditie f, mondelinge overlevering f
• Esperanto: parola tradicio
• Finnish: suullinen perinne
• French: tradition orale (fr) f
• German: mündlich überlieferte Tradition f, mündliche Überlieferung f
• Hungarian: szájhagyomány (hu)
• Irish: béalaireacht f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: muntlig tradisjon m, muntlig overlevering m or f

  Nynorsk: munnleg tradisjon m, munnleg overlevering f

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: tradición oral f

See also

• oral history
• orality