ABSTRACT
Storytelling within Basque culture is one aspect of an ancient oral tradition that survives and flourishes today in the Basque country. Euskal Herria, as the region is called in the Basque language (Euskara), occupies a small area in the north of Spain and south of France, in the Pyrenees. The Basque people (euskaldunak) speak a non-Indo-European language but live in a diglossic situation. That is, Basque and the majority languages, Spanish and French, coexist in the same territory. This has been the case in the Basque country for centuries. It is estimated that from 20 to 25 percent of the population speaks Euskara today.
