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What does oral tradition mean?

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Noun
  1. Cultural material transmitted orally from one generation to another.
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All the ethnic groups of Uganda have a rich oral tradition of tales, legends, stories, proverbs, and riddles.
Welsh culture was based on an oral tradition of legends, myths, and folktales passed down from generation to generation.
I think that it is perhaps true that it is only recorded in the magazine, but I think there has been an oral tradition that has kept it alive.
No doubt many redactors took a hand in shaping this chapter from stories in the oral tradition.
The trustworthiness of oral tradition varies inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the idiosyncracy of the narrator.
Like all other languages that have grown up in an oral tradition, Maori has been a performance language.

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