Editing Siwi language (section)

===Tales===
A Siwi tale ({{lang|siz|tanf̣ast}}) uses a specific opening formula:<ref>{{harvcoltxt|Schiattarella|2016|pp=21–22}}</ref>

: {{lang|siz|tixəṛxaṛén, tibəṛbaṛén, tiqəṭṭušén, g álbab n alħošə́nnax}}
: {{lang|siz|tixəṛxaṛen, tibəṛbaṛen}} 'at the door of our courtyard'

and closes with the formula:

: {{lang|siz|ħattuta, ħattuta, qəṣṣəṛ ʕṃəṛha. akəṃṃús n əlxér i ənšní, akəṃṃús n šáṛ i əntnə́n}}
: 'Tale, tale, it has shortened its span.  A bundle of goodness to us, a bundle of badness to them.'

They were typically told by old women to children on evenings to entertain and perhaps to educate them.<ref>{{harvcoltxt|Schiattarella|2016|pp=25, 71–73}}</ref>  Since the arrival of television in the oasis, this practice has largely disappeared.<ref>{{harvcoltxt|Schiattarella|2016|p=25}}</ref>  Apart from humans and (talking) animals, a common character in such tales is the [[ogre]] ({{lang|siz|amẓa}}) or ogress ({{lang|siz|tamẓa}}).  The first Siwi tales to appear in print were four short fables gathered from men ("The Jackal and the Ewe", "The Jackal and the Hyena", "The Hare, the Jackal, the Hyena, and the Lion", and "The Magic Ring") in Laoust.<ref>{{harvcoltxt|Laoust|1932|pp=146–150}}</ref>  Malim gives two Siwi folk tales ("The Green Cow" and "The King's Daughter and the Three Beautiful Girls") in English translation.<ref>{{harvcoltxt|Malim|2001|pp=100–104}}</ref> Schiattarella transcribes and translates fourteen tales, gathered from women.<ref>{{harvcoltxt|Schiattarella|2016}}</ref>