Editing Beja language (section)

==Literature==
Beja has an extensive oral tradition, including multiple poetic genres. A well-known epic is the story of the hero Mhamuud Oofaash, portions of which have appeared in various publications by Klaus Wedekind.{{sfnm|1a1=Wedekind|1y=2006|2a1=Wedekind|2a2=Mohammed|2y=2008}} An edition appears in Mahmud Mohammed Ahmed's ''Oomraay'', published in [[Asmara]].{{sfn|Mohammed Ahmed|2004}} In the 1960s and '70s, the Beja intellectual Muhammed Adarob Ohaj collected oral recordings of poetic and narrative material which are in the [[University of Khartoum]] Institute of African and Asian Studies Sound Archives. [[Didier Morin]] and Mohamed-Tahir Hamid Ahmed have used these, in addition to their own collections, for multiple academic publications in French on Beja poetics{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}.{{sfn|Hamid Ahmed|2010}} [[Red Sea University]] and the NGO Uhaashoon worked with oral story-tellers to produce a collection of 41 short readers and a longer collection of three short stories in Beja between 2010 and 2013.{{sfn|Swackhamer|2013}}