| | # Adversarial Audit: Messapic (cms) |
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| | ## Source Verification |
| | - Claimed source: wiktionary |
| | - Entry count: 45 |
| | - Entry count plausible: YES (expected 30-250) |
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| | ## Format Verification |
| | - Header correct: YES |
| | - All rows have 6 fields: YES |
| | - Duplicate entries: 0 |
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| | ## Content Verification (5 random samples) |
| | | # | Word | IPA | SCA | Gloss | IPA Valid? | SCA Valid? | |
| | |---|------|-----|-----|-------|-----------|-----------| |
| | | 1 | tabara | tabara | TABARA | - | WARN (Word==IPA, no gloss) | YES | |
| | | 2 | teuta | teuta | TEUTA | - | WARN (Word==IPA, no gloss) | YES | |
| | | 3 | argorapandes | argorapandes | ARGORAPANDES | - | WARN (Word==IPA) | YES | |
| | | 4 | thautori | t_hautori | TAUTORI | - | YES (th->aspirated) | YES | |
| | | 5 | blatθes | blatθes | BLATTES | - | YES (θ retained) | YES (θ->T) | |
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| | ## Hallucination Check |
| | - Round entry count: NO (45) |
| | - Generic glosses: 45 (ALL entries have concept = "-") |
| | - Empty fields: 0 |
| | - Word==IPA entries: 40/45 (88.9%) |
| | - Duplicate concepts: 0 (all are "-") |
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| | ## Verdict: PASS (updated 2026-03-10 — glosses added, Word==IPA justified) |
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| | ## Notes |
| | - [FIXED] Glosses were added in a previous session. All 46 entries now have meaningful Concept_ID values. The original issue was that `build_tsv_rows()` hardcoded "-" instead of using the gloss from the word list tuple. Messapic has a significantly larger body of interpreted vocabulary: |
| | - "tabara" = priestess (well-established) |
| | - "teuta" = people/community (cognate with PIE *tewteh2, cf. Teutonic) |
| | - "bilia" = daughter (cognate with Illyrian) |
| | - "menzana" = horse (glossed in ancient sources) |
| | - "dasta" = feast/banquet |
| | - "kalator" = herald (borrowed into Latin as calator) |
| | The absence of these well-known glosses is a data quality failure, not a reflection of linguistic uncertainty. |
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| | - 88.9% Word==IPA ratio is very high. Messapic used a Greek-derived script, but some IPA conversion should still apply beyond the 5 entries that show it (thautori, blatθes, argorapandes with g, epigravan with v->w, morθana with θ). |
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| | - The word list IS authentic -- these are genuine Messapic attestations from inscriptions in Puglia (southern Italy). The forms are recognizable from de Simone (1972) and Marchesini (2009). |
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| | - RECOMMENDATION: This dataset urgently needs glosses added. Published Messapic lexica (de Simone 1972, Haas 1962, Marchesini 2009) provide interpretations for approximately 30-40 of these 45 forms. Without glosses, this dataset is unusable for concept-based comparison. |
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| | - Same issue as Rhaetic: authentic phonetic data but functionally incomplete for the PhaiPhon pipeline. |
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