Literature develops through the oral tradition based on the basic speech patterns. Over many centuries of deep-rooted accumulation, cultural values, experiences are conveyed from generation to generation through oral tradition. Although this transfer is mostly made with written and visual materials, it is still possible to see in public culture, oral expression in life and its folk literature as a living. In this sense, Anatolia and Mesopotamia, in particular are important in terms of verbal culture and tradition. In this study, the literary history written in aforementioned geographies refers to the verbal cultural existence of Kırmanc / Zazaki, which is known to have a rooted past, which can only be reached a century ago and contrary to oral tradition. Bingöl, Tunceli, Elazığ, Diyarbakir, and the Euphrates and Dicle basin, this community is also emphasized on the tradition, operation and principles of poetic / rhythmic oral expression which is reflected in the existence of oral culture as a serious resource for researchers at the same time. In the narrative / narrative practice context, verbal tradition and folk literature are assessed for improvisation, reverence and vocabulary / relation between music and speech, poetry, rhetoric and folk poetry, and socio-cultural function of dengbêj. Eventually; the continuing oral culture / tradition that has been continuing from day to day is still present in the context of geography and societies, and it is offered to the attention that the socio-cultural function is preserved.