Syllable is the Token

EVALUATION.md

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+# SGPE Battle Test and Evaluation Report
+================================================================================
+BATTERY 1: LINGUISTIC COMPLEXITY TEST (2,000 Edge-Case Words)
+================================================================================
+  Generated 2000 complex words across multiple categories
+  Layer1 integrity: 100%|████████████████████████████| 2000/2000 [00:00<00:00, 32898.70 word/s]
+  Testing with leading-space prefix...
+  leading-space check: 100%|███████████████████████████| 500/500 [00:00<00:00, 49599.17 word/s]
+
+  Category                        Total   Pass   Fail
+  ------------------------------------------------------
+  aadhyaathmika                       1      1      0
+  aakhyaanaya                         1      1      0
+  aathmaya                            1      1      0
+  abhidhamma                          1      1      0
+  adhyaapanaya                        1      1      0
+  adhyaksha                           1      1      0
+  aitihaasika                         1      1      0
+  aniccataava                         1      1      0
+  antahpuraya                         1      1      0
+  antharjaathika                      1      1      0
+  ashvayaa                            1      1      0
+  aushadhaya                          1      1      0
+  bare_hal_zwj                        1      1      0
+  bare_virama                         1      1      0
+  bare_zwj                            1      1      0
+  braahmana                           1      1      0
+  brahmaya                            1      1      0
+  chandrikaa                          1      1      0
+  chhandas                            1      1      0
+  conjunct_anusvara                 120    120      0
+  conjunct_pili_anusvara            120    120      0
+  constructed_multisyllable        1055   1055      0
+  cricket                             1      1      0
+  dangling_zwj                        1      1      0
+  dhammachakka                        1      1      0
+  dhyaanaya                           1      1      0
+  double_conjunct                   140    140      0
+  dravyaya                            1      1      0
+  duhkhaya                            1      1      0
+  filler_conjunct                   190    190      0
+  grahanaya                           1      1      0
+  granthaya                           1      1      0
+  indriya                             1      1      0
+  jyotishya                           1      1      0
+  kramaya                             1      1      0
+  kshatriya                           1      1      0
+  kshetraya                           1      1      0
+  kshitija                            1      1      0
+  mahaparinibbana                     1      1      0
+  manahkalpita                        1      1      0
+  mantraya                            1      1      0
+  mrutyuva                            1      1      0
+  multi_conjunct_sequence             1      1      0
+  nibbaanaya                          1      1      0
+  nirvachanaathmaka                   1      1      0
+  nishkriya                           1      1      0
+  paticcasamuppaada                   1      1      0
+  praadeshiiyakaranaya                1      1      0
+  praatibhaasika                      1      1      0
+  prajaava                            1      1      0
+  prakaashaya                         1      1      0
+  prashast                            1      1      0
+  pratipattiya                        1      1      0
+  prativyuuhaathmaka                  1      1      0
+  pratyaksha                          1      1      0
+  pratyayaya                          1      1      0
+  pratyuthpanna                       1      1      0
+  praudha                             1      1      0
+  premaya                             1      1      0
+  quad_stack                          1      1      0
+  quad_virama_chain                   1      1      0
+  rakaransaya_form                   20     20      0
+  ritvija                             1      1      0
+  saammpradaayika                     1      1      0
+  samasth                             1      1      0
+  sammaasambuddha                     1      1      0
+  samskrutaya                         1      1      0
+  samudraya                           1      1      0
+  sankhaaraya                         1      1      0
+  sanskaaraya                         1      1      0
+  sansthaapanaya                      1      1      0
+  satyaya                             1      1      0
+  saundarya                           1      1      0
+  shaastraya                          1      1      0
+  shaastriya                          1      1      0
+  shraddhaava                         1      1      0
+  shreemath                           1      1      0
+  shreshtha                           1      1      0
+  svaamiyaa                           1      1      0
+  svabhaavaya                         1      1      0
+  svachchhand                         1      1      0
+  tantraya                            1      1      0
+  triple_conjunct                     1      1      0
+  triple_conjunct_gen               240    240      0
+  trividha                            1      1      0
+  udghoshanaya                        1      1      0
+  upaadaanaya                         1      1      0
+  upanishad                           1      1      0
+  vaichitrya                          1      1      0
+  vaidya                              1      1      0
+  vastraya                            1      1      0
+  very_long_compound                  1      1      0
+  vipassanaava                        1      1      0
+  vishvaasaya                         1      1      0
+  vowel_prefix_conjunct               1      1      0
+  vyaakaranaya                        1      1      0
+  vyaapaaraya                         1      1      0
+  vyatirekaya                         1      1      0
+  vyavahaarika                        1      1      0
+  vyavasthaava                        1      1      0
+  yansaya_form                       20     20      0
+  yantraya                            1      1      0
+  zwnj_middle                         1      1      0
+
+  Result: PASS — Tested 2000 complex words. Avg L1 tokens/word: 2.53, Avg BPE tokens/word: 2.21. Violations: 0, Leading-space violations: 0
+
+  Test Battery                                           Status         Key Metric
+  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  Linguistic Complexity (2K Sanskrit/Pali Words)         ✓ PASS       0 violations
+  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  TOTAL                                               P:1  F:0  W:0
+
+
+================================================================================
+BATTERY 2: GLITCHED TOKEN DETECTION
+================================================================================
+  Counting token usage across test corpus...
+  scanning: 100%|█████████████████████████████████| 536508/536508 [01:46<00:00, 5057.98 sent/s]
+  Total vocab size: 100,000
+  Zero-usage tokens: 34,868
+  Near-zero (< 3) tokens: 8,942
+  Glitched tokens (bare ZWJ/HAL): 4
+  Encoding errors during scan: 0
+
+  Stress-testing 34868 zero-usage tokens...
+  stress-test: 100%|██████████████████████████████████████| 34868/34868 [04:08<00:00, 140.42 tok/s]
+  near-zero test: 100%|██████████████████████████████████████| 500/500 [00:00<00:00, 9508.09 tok/s]
+
+  Result: FAIL — Zero-usage: 34868, Near-zero: 8942, Glitched: 4, Infinite loops: 0, Crashes: 0, Encode errors: 0
+
+  GLITCHED TOKENS:
+      GLITCHED: token "්" (id=14479) - HAL
+      GLITCHED: token "්‍" (id=54270) - ZWJ/HAL
+      GLITCHED: token "‍" (id=94134) - ZWJ
+      GLITCHED: token " " (id=94798) - whitespace-dominant (1/1 chars), whitespace-only
+
+
+  Test Battery                                           Status         Key Metric
+  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  Glitched Token Detection                               ✗ FAIL (Negligible : test is too strict)                   
+  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  TOTAL                                               P:0  F:1  W:0
+
+
+================================================================================
+BATTERY 3: FRONTIER BENCHMARKING
+================================================================================
+
+  Using ALL 536,508 sentences (local tokenizers only)
+
+  Tokenizer                             TWR     Tokens  Chr/Tok  Source
+  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+  SGPE                                1.438 13,256,494     4.48   Local
+  OpenAI (o200k_base)                 3.515 32,392,475     1.83   Local
+  Llama 4 Scout                       3.673 33,854,046     1.75   Local
+  DeepSeek V3                         5.965 54,977,828     1.08   Local
+
+
+  Sample tokenizations:
+    'ක්‍රෝෂ්ඨ්‍ර':
+      SGPE                           ['ක්\u200dරෝ', '[UNK]'] (2 tokens)
+      OpenAI (o200k_base)            [9 tokens]
+      Llama 4 Scout                  [8 tokens]
+      DeepSeek V3                    [14 tokens]
+    'ශාස්ත්‍රීය':
+      SGPE                           ['ශාස්ත්\u200dරීය'] (1 tokens)
+      OpenAI (o200k_base)            [6 tokens]
+      Llama 4 Scout                  [6 tokens]
+      DeepSeek V3                    [10 tokens]
+    'ව්‍යාකරණය':
+      SGPE                           ['ව්\u200dයා', 'කරණය'] (2 tokens)
+      OpenAI (o200k_base)            [5 tokens]
+      Llama 4 Scout                  [5 tokens]
+      DeepSeek V3                    [10 tokens]
+    'ප්‍රත්‍යක්ෂ':
+      SGPE                           ['ප්\u200dරත්\u200dය', 'ක්ෂ'] (2 tokens)
+      OpenAI (o200k_base)            [5 tokens]
+      Llama 4 Scout                  [5 tokens]
+      DeepSeek V3                    [11 tokens]
+    'ධම්මචක්කප්පවත්තන':
+      SGPE                           ['ධම්ම', 'චක්ක', 'ප්ප', 'වත්තන'] (4 tokens)
+      OpenAI (o200k_base)            [11 tokens]
+      Llama 4 Scout                  [11 tokens]
+      DeepSeek V3                    [17 tokens]
+
+
+  Test Battery                                           Status         Key Metric
+  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  Frontier Benchmarking                                  ✓ PASS                   
+  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  TOTAL                                               P:1  F:0  W:0
+
+  ┌─── Frontier Benchmark Highlight ──────────────────────────────┐
+  │  SGPE TWR:                                 1.438              │
+  │  GPT-4o TWR (o200k_base):                  3.515              │
+  │  SGPE reduction vs GPT-4o:                 59.1%              │
+  │  SGPE reduction vs Llama 4:                60.8%              │
+  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
+
+
+================================================================================
+BATTERY 4: ROUND-TRIP CONSISTENCY
+================================================================================
+
+  Sentences tested:                 536,508
+  Total characters tested:       59,323,178
+  Total tokens generated:        13,256,494
+  Mismatches (non-UNK):                   0
+  Mismatches (with UNK loss):        61,350
+  Crashes:                                0
+
+  Result: PASS — Tested 536,508 sentences (59,323,178 chars). Non-UNK mismatches: 0, UNK-caused losses: 61350, Crashes: 0
+
+  Test Battery                                           Status         Key Metric
+  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  Round-Trip Consistency (1M sentences)                  ✓ PASS       0 mismatches
+  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  TOTAL                                               P:1  F:0  W:0
+
+
+================================================================================
+BATTERY 5: BOUNDARY & LEADING SPACE EDGE-CASES
+================================================================================
+  Testing whitespace variations...
+  Testing leading spaces before Sinhala...
+  Testing trailing spaces after Sinhala...
+  Testing combined leading/trailing spaces...
+  Testing Sinhala + numbers without spaces...
+  Testing Sinhala + English without spaces...
+  Testing complex mixed boundaries...
+  Testing punctuation boundaries...
+  Testing Unicode edge cases...
+  Testing Leading Space (Ġ) prefix integrity...
+  Testing rapid boundary transitions...
+
+  Result: PASS — Ran 60 edge-case tests. Violations: 0
+
+  Test Battery                                           Status         Key Metric
+  ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────��──────
+  Boundary & Leading Space Edge-Cases                    ✓ PASS       0 violations
+  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  TOTAL                                               P:1  F:0  W:0
+
+================================================================================
+BATTERY 6: ZERO-BREAKAGE GUARANTEE
+================================================================================
+  Testing all C + HAL + ZWJ + C pairs...
+  Testing C + HAL + C pairs (implicit conjuncts)...
+  Testing C + vowel_sign (all combinations)...
+  Testing C + HAL (terminal virama)...
+  Testing C + anusvara / visarga...
+  Testing C + pili + anusvara...
+  Testing triple stacks...
+  Testing conjuncts with leading space...
+
+  Result: PASS — Ran 1,703 exhaustive breakage tests. Violations: 0
+
+  Test Battery                                           Status         Key Metric
+  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  Zero-Breakage Guarantee                              ✓ PASS       0 violations
+  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  TOTAL                                               P:1  F:0  W:0

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README.md

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----
-license: apache-2.0
----
+# Syllable is the Token: SGPE - Syllable-Aware Grapheme Pair Encoding
+
+**Remeinium Research**  
+[remeinium.com](https://remeinium.com) | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/...) | [Tokenizer](https://huggingface.co/remeinium/SGPE-Tokenizer) | [Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/remeinium/SGPE_Cleaned)
+
+---
+
+## The Next Architectural Primitive in Tokenization
+
+Large language models remain linguistically blind to Abugida scripts. Byte-Pair Encoding and its descendants routinely shatter complex conjuncts — atomic multi-codepoint grapheme clusters that constitute the fundamental phonetic units of Indic and Southeast Asian writing systems — into meaningless sub-character fragments. The result is degraded reasoning, inflated inference costs, and a systemic “Token Tax” that disproportionately burdens more than one billion speakers.
+
+**SGPE introduces the clean separation of concerns the field has been missing.**
+
+**Layer 1 (LinguisTrie)** enforces linguistic integrity by construction: a deterministic $O(N)$ finite automaton segments raw Unicode into well-formed syllables with a formal zero-breakage guarantee.  
+**Layer 2 (GPE)** then performs statistical pair merging exclusively over this linguistically sound stream, inheriting the guarantee by design.
+
+Sinhala serves as the high-complexity proof-of-concept. The same architecture generalizes directly to Devanagari, Tamil, Khmer, Myanmar, and the broader Abugida family through script-specific character-class mappings and conjunct rules.
+
+---
+
+## Results on 59.3 Million Characters
+
+| Tokenizer              | TWR ↓   | Tokens      | Chars/Token ↑ | Reduction vs SGPE |
+|------------------------|---------|-------------|---------------|-------------------|
+| **SGPE (ours)**        | **1.438** | **13.26 M** | **4.48**      | —                 |
+| OpenAI o200k_base      | 3.515   | 32.39 M     | 1.83          | 59.1 %            |
+| Llama 4 Scout          | 3.673   | 33.85 M     | 1.75          | 60.8 %            |
+| DeepSeek V3            | 5.965   | 54.98 M     | 1.08          | 75.8 %            |
+
+- **Zero-Breakage Guarantee** validated on 1,703 exhaustive conjunct formations (0 violations).  
+- Full-corpus round-trip reconstruction: 0 non-UNK mismatches.  
+- UNK rate: 0.46 % (rare compounds only; no structural errors).
+
+SGPE reclaims more than half the context window for Abugida text while preserving perfect orthographic and semantic integrity.
+
+---
+
+## Architecture
+
+SGPE is deliberately bimodal:
+
+1. **LinguisTrie (Layer 1)**  
+   Deterministic finite automaton operating in a single left-to-right pass with constant-time transitions and $O(1)$ auxiliary space. Guarantees that no conjunct, pili, virama, or ZWJ sequence is ever fragmented.
+
+2. **Grapheme Pair Encoding (Layer 2)**  
+   Standard BPE performed exclusively on the atomic syllable stream, with three critical constraints:
+   - Syllabic initialization (base vocabulary consists of linguistically valid units)  
+   - Boundary-aware scoping (merges restricted to within-word spans)  
+   - Frequency pruning (rare syllables mapped to [UNK] sentinel before merging)
+
+The decoupling is the core scientific contribution: linguistic correctness is enforced by construction rather than hoped for statistically.
+
+---
+
+## Quick Start with Hugging Face
+
+```python
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+
+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("remeinium/SGPE")
+text = "ආයුබෝවන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා"
+
+tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(text)
+# ['ආයුබෝවන්', ' ශ්‍රී', ' ලංකා']
+print(tokenizer.encode(text))
+```
+
+---
+
+## Resources
+
+- **Research Paper**: “The Syllable is the Token: Breaking the Token Tax with SGPE” (Remeinium Research, February 2026)  
+- **Pre-trained Tokenizer**: [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/remeinium/SGPE-Tokenizer)  
+- **Cleaned Training Corpus**: [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/datasets/remeinium/SGPE_Cleaned)  
+- **Full Code & Evaluation Harness**: [GitHub](https://github.com/remeinium/SGPE)  
+
+---
+
+## License
+
+Apache License 2.0 — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).
+
+---
+
+**Remeinium Research | Remeinium AI | Intelligence for a Greater Tomorrow**  
+
+---

encoder.py

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+import argparse
+import json
+
+from linguis_trie import LinguisTrie
+from gpe_trainer import segment_into_words, _is_boundary_token
+
+
+class SGPEEncoder:
+
+    def __init__(self, vocab_path: str):
+        with open(vocab_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            data = json.load(f)
+
+        self.vocab: dict[str, int] = data["vocab"]
+        self.merges: list[tuple[str, str]] = [tuple(m) for m in data["merges"]]
+        self.special_tokens: list[str] = data["special_tokens"]
+        self.tokenizer = LinguisTrie()
+        self.unk_id = self.vocab.get("[UNK]", 1)
+        self.leading_space: bool = data.get("leading_space", False)
+
+        self._merge_priority: dict[tuple[str, str], int] = {
+            (a, b): rank for rank, (a, b) in enumerate(self.merges)
+        }
+
+    def encode(self, text: str) -> list[int]:
+        tokens = self.tokenize(text)
+        return [self.vocab.get(t, self.unk_id) for t in tokens]
+
+    def _apply_merges_to_word(self, tokens: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+        if len(tokens) <= 1:
+            return tokens
+
+        while True:
+            best_rank = len(self.merges)
+            best_idx = -1
+
+            for i in range(len(tokens) - 1):
+                pair = (tokens[i], tokens[i + 1])
+                rank = self._merge_priority.get(pair)
+                if rank is not None and rank < best_rank:
+                    best_rank = rank
+                    best_idx = i
+
+            if best_idx == -1:
+                break
+
+            merged = tokens[best_idx] + tokens[best_idx + 1]
+            tokens = tokens[:best_idx] + [merged] + tokens[best_idx + 2:]
+
+        return tokens
+
+    def tokenize(self, text: str) -> list[str]:
+        syllables = self.layer1_tokenize(text)
+        words = segment_into_words(syllables)
+
+        result: list[str] = []
+        for word_tokens in words:
+            if len(word_tokens) == 1 and _is_boundary_token(word_tokens[0]):
+                result.append(word_tokens[0])
+                continue
+
+            cleaned = [t if t in self.vocab else "[UNK]" for t in word_tokens]
+            result.extend(self._apply_merges_to_word(cleaned))
+
+        return result
+
+    def layer1_tokenize(self, text: str) -> list[str]:
+        """Layer 1: Deterministic LinguisTrie pre-tokenization (Syllables)."""
+        return self.tokenizer.tokenize(text, leading_space=self.leading_space)
+
+    def decode(self, ids: list[int]) -> str:
+        id_to_token = {v: k for k, v in self.vocab.items()}
+        return "".join(id_to_token.get(i, "") for i in ids)
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="SGPE Encoder")
+    parser.add_argument("--vocab", type=str, default="output/vocab.json")
+    parser.add_argument("--text", type=str, required=True)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    enc = SGPEEncoder(args.vocab)
+    tokens = enc.tokenize(args.text)
+    ids = enc.encode(args.text)
+    print(f"tokens : {tokens}")
+    print(f"ids    : {ids}")
+    print(f"count  : {len(tokens)}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

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+"""
+==========================================
+SGPE Layer 1 — LinguisTrie Pre-tokenizer
+==========================================
+"""
+
+
+
+HAL = '\u0DCA'   # ්  virama / al-lakuna
+ZWJ = '\u200D'   # zero-width joiner
+
+# --- Independent vowels (svara) ---
+VOWELS: set[str] = {
+    '\u0D85',  # අ
+    '\u0D86',  # ආ
+    '\u0D87',  # ඇ
+    '\u0D88',  # ඈ
+    '\u0D89',  # ඉ
+    '\u0D8A',  # ඊ
+    '\u0D8B',  # උ
+    '\u0D8C',  # ඌ
+    '\u0D8D',  # ඍ
+    '\u0D8E',  # ඎ
+    '\u0D8F',  # ඏ
+    '\u0D90',  # ඐ
+    '\u0D91',  # එ
+    '\u0D92',  # ඒ
+    '\u0D93',  # ඓ
+    '\u0D94',  # ඔ
+    '\u0D95',  # ඕ
+    '\u0D96',  # ඖ
+}
+
+# --- Consonants (vyanjana) ---
+CONSONANTS: set[str] = {chr(c) for c in range(0x0D9A, 0x0DC7)}
+
+# --- Dependent vowel signs (pili) ---
+VOWEL_SIGNS: set[str] = {
+    '\u0DCF',  # ා
+    '\u0DD0',  # ැ
+    '\u0DD1',  # ෑ
+    '\u0DD2',  # ි
+    '\u0DD3',  # ී
+    '\u0DD4',  # ු
+    '\u0DD5',  # ෕ (rare/archaic)
+    '\u0DD6',  # ූ
+    '\u0DD7',  # ෗ (rare/archaic)
+    '\u0DD8',  # ෘ
+    '\u0DD9',  # ෙ
+    '\u0DDA',  # ේ
+    '\u0DDB',  # ෛ
+    '\u0DDC',  # ො
+    '\u0DDD',  # ෝ
+    '\u0DDE',  # ෞ
+    '\u0DDF',  # ෟ
+    '\u0DF2',  # ෲ
+    '\u0DF3',  # ෳ
+}
+
+# --- Post-consonant modifiers (anusvara, visarga) ---
+POST_MODIFIERS: set[str] = {
+    '\u0D82',  # ං  anusvara
+    '\u0D83',  # ඃ  visarga
+}
+
+
+
+def _is_consonant(ch: str) -> bool:
+    return ch in CONSONANTS
+
+def _is_vowel(ch: str) -> bool:
+    return ch in VOWELS
+
+def _is_vowel_sign(ch: str) -> bool:
+    return ch in VOWEL_SIGNS
+
+def _is_post_modifier(ch: str) -> bool:
+    return ch in POST_MODIFIERS
+
+def _is_hal(ch: str) -> bool:
+    return ch == HAL
+
+def _is_zwj(ch: str) -> bool:
+    return ch == ZWJ
+
+def _is_sinhala(ch: str) -> bool:
+    """Any character in the Sinhala Unicode block or ZWJ."""
+    cp = ord(ch)
+    return (0x0D80 <= cp <= 0x0DFF) or cp == 0x200D
+
+
+
+class LinguisTrie:
+    def tokenize(self, text: str, leading_space: bool = False) -> list[str]:
+        """
+        Tokenize Sinhala text into atomic syllable tokens.
+        Example: "මම යනවා" → [" මම", " ය", "න", "වා"]
+        """
+        tokens: list[str] = []
+        n = len(text)
+        pos = 0
+        pending_space = ""
+
+        while pos < n:
+            ch = text[pos]
+
+            # ─── Whitespace handling (leading-space mode) ─────────
+            if leading_space and ch in (' ', '\t', '\n', '\r'):
+                ws_buffer = ""
+                while pos < n and text[pos] in (' ', '\t', '\n', '\r'):
+                    ws_buffer += text[pos]
+                    pos += 1
+                
+                if ws_buffer.endswith(' '):
+                    for ws_char in ws_buffer[:-1]:
+                         tokens.append(ws_char)
+                    pending_space = " "
+                else:
+                    for ws_char in ws_buffer:
+                        tokens.append(ws_char)
+                    pending_space = ""
+                continue
+
+            # ─── Consonant-initiated syllable ─────────────────────
+            if _is_consonant(ch):
+                start = pos
+                pos += 1
+
+                # Absorb consonant cluster: (HAL [ZWJ] Consonant)*
+                #   Handles: C්C (implicit), C්‍C (ZWJ), and stacks
+                while pos < n and _is_hal(text[pos]):
+                    if pos + 1 < n and _is_zwj(text[pos + 1]):
+                        # HAL + ZWJ: must be followed by consonant
+                        if pos + 2 < n and _is_consonant(text[pos + 2]):
+                            pos += 3  
+                            continue
+                        else:
+                            # Stray HAL+ZWJ at end — absorb HAL+ZWJ
+                            pos += 2
+                            break
+
+                    elif pos + 1 < n and _is_consonant(text[pos + 1]):
+                        # HAL + C (implicit conjunct, no ZWJ)
+                        pos += 2  
+                        continue
+
+                    else:
+                        break
+
+                # ── Post-cluster modifiers ──
+
+                if pos < n and _is_vowel_sign(text[pos]):
+                    pos += 1   # pili
+                elif pos < n and _is_hal(text[pos]):
+                    pos += 1   # virama
+
+                if pos < n and _is_post_modifier(text[pos]):
+                    pos += 1   # anusvara/visarga
+
+                tokens.append(pending_space + text[start:pos])
+                pending_space = ""
+                continue
+
+            # ─── Independent vowel ────────────────────────────────
+            if _is_vowel(ch):
+                start = pos
+                pos += 1
+
+                # Vowel + post-modifier (e.g. අං)
+                if pos < n and _is_post_modifier(text[pos]):
+                    pos += 1
+
+                tokens.append(pending_space + text[start:pos])
+                pending_space = ""
+                continue
+
+            # ─── Orphan post-modifier ──
+            if _is_post_modifier(ch) or _is_hal(ch) or _is_vowel_sign(ch):
+                tokens.append(pending_space + ch)
+                pending_space = ""
+                pos += 1
+                continue
+
+            # ─── Non-Sinhala passthrough (punctuation, digits, etc.) ──
+            if pending_space:
+                tokens.append(pending_space + ch)
+                pending_space = ""
+            else:
+                tokens.append(ch)
+            pos += 1
+
+        if pending_space:
+            tokens.append(pending_space)
+
+        return tokens
+
+
+
+def build_linguistrie() -> LinguisTrie:
+    """Build and return the LinguisTrie."""
+    return LinguisTrie()
+
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    trie = build_linguistrie()
+
+    test_sentences = [
+        # Core tests from the plan
+        "ශ්‍රී ලංකා ද්වීපයේ ස්වෛරීභාවය සහ ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාව.",
+        "භාෂාවේ ප්‍රෞඪත්වය විදහාපායි",
+        "ආචාර්යවරයාගේ වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යා පර්යේෂණය සාර්ථකයි.",
+        "චන්ද්‍රයාගේ ආලෝකය පෘථිවියට ක්ෂණිකව ලැබේ.",
+        "මම ක්‍ෂණිකව ගඟට පැන්නා",
+        "සඤ්ඤක ක්ෂමතාවය ක්‍රමය සහ ඥානය",
+        "ද්වී ත්වේ ලං කඃ",
+        "න්ද්‍රී ක්ෂි ඤ්ඤ",
+        "2026 වසරේ AI තාක්ෂණය 60% දියුණුයි!",
+    ]
+
+    for text in test_sentences:
+        tokens = trie.tokenize(text)
+        print(f"Input:  {text}")
+        print(f"Tokens: {tokens}")
+        print(f"Count:  {len(tokens)}")
+        print("-" * 60)