Oral literature

literary genre

heroic epic of the Kirgiz people

thumb|upright=1.35|The Boyhood of Raleigh by Sir [[John Everett Millais, oil on canvas, 1870.A seafarer tells the young Walter Raleigh and his brother the story of what happened out at sea.]]

body of Indic literature

genre; oral poetic performance art based mainly on the poetic as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities

thumb|right|250px|Aoidos and outer space; [[allegory by Mikhail Kurushin]] The Greek word '''''''' (; plural: , ) referred to a classical Greek singer. In modern Homeric scholarship, it is used by some as the technical term for a skilled oral epic poet in the tradition to which the Iliad and Odyssey'' are believed to belong (compare rhapsode).

sung epic poem originating in Ukraine

epic poem of the Malinke people, telling the story of the hero Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Mali Empire

Skaz () is a Russian oral form of narrative. The word comes from skazátʹ, "to tell", and is also related to such words as rasskaz, "short story" and skazka, "fairy tale". The speech makes use of dialect and slang in order to take on the persona of a particular character. The peculiar speech, however, is integrated into the surrounding narrative, and not presented in quotation marks. Skaz is not only a literary device, but is also used as an element in Russian monologue comedy.

Palestinian women's oral literature

efforts to save languages spoken by tiny minorities from extinction

Hainteny (pronounced , Malagasy for "knowledge of words") is a traditional form of Malagasy oral literature and poetry, involving heavy use of metaphor. It is associated primarily with the Merina people of Madagascar. In its use of metaphor and allusion it resembles another type of poetry, the Malay pantun, and Fox suggests "it seems likely the Merina brought with them a Malayo-Polynesian poetic tradition" to Madagascar. The Ibonia, an epic poem related for centuries in different versions across Madagascar, reflects the value placed on the linguistic skills celebrated in the hainteny tradition

tradition between the storyteller and their audience

Polish literary form

Mongolian oral tradition comprising heroic epics

Gawęda () is a genre of Polish oral folklore, as well as an epic literary genre of works stylized as an oral tale, characterized by freedom of composition, rich in digressions, and written in language close to colloquial language. The word literally means "oral tale".

oral and written works in Edo language