Basque Bertsolaritza (Chinese)

Prior to 1879, only 102 books were produced in Euskara and only four of those were literary (Lasagabaster 1990:2), as opposed to treatises on the language, sermons, and so forth, so in essence written Basque literature is a twentieth-century phenomenon. The forms of oral literature were abundant prior to the emergence of the written forms, and the art of the bertsolari ("Basque troubadour") formed the basis for much of the early written poetry. Bertso paperak ("paper verses") were printed with the name of the melody to which they should be sung, for example.Not