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Adversarial Audit: Proto-Dravidian (dra-pro)

Source Verification

  • Claimed source: wiktionary
  • Entry count: 171
  • Entry count plausible: YES (expected 100-500)

Format Verification

  • Header correct: YES
  • All rows have 6 fields: YES
  • Duplicate entries: 0

Content Verification (5 random samples)

# Word IPA SCA Gloss IPA Valid? SCA Valid?
1 nīr n_dental_i:r NIR water YES (dental n, long i) YES
2 kaṇ kan_retroflex KAN eye YES (retroflex n) YES
3 col tsol TSOL fireplace YES (c->ts palatal affricate) YES
4 amma amma AMMA mother WARN (Word==IPA) YES
5 pāmpu pa:mpu PAMPU snake YES (long a) YES

Hallucination Check

  • Round entry count: NO (171)
  • Generic glosses: 0
  • Empty fields: 0
  • Word==IPA entries: 24/171 (14.0%)
  • Duplicate concepts: 15 (e.g., "father" x3, "mother" x2, "old" x2, "flower" x2)

Verdict: PASS

Notes

  • Excellent IPA quality: 81.9% of entries have non-ASCII IPA characters. Proto-Dravidian phonology includes retroflexes (ʈ, ɖ, ɳ, ɭ, ɻ), dentals (t̪, n̪), palatals (tʃ, ɲ), and long vowels -- all properly represented.
  • 14.0% Word==IPA ratio is the healthiest of all 12 languages audited. This indicates thorough phonological conversion from the DEDR transliteration to IPA.
  • SCA encoding correctly handles the Dravidian retroflex/dental contrast by neutralizing to the same class (both map to T/N/L), which is appropriate for SCA sound class abstraction.
  • Vocabulary is consistent with Krishnamurti (2003) and DEDR (Burrow & Emeneau):
    • Core Dravidian terms: nīr (water), kal (stone), il (house), pāl (milk), mīn (fish)
    • Numerals: ir (two), nāl (four), cay (five), cāṯu (six), ēẓ (seven)
    • Flora/fauna: puli (tiger), pāmpu (snake), eli (rat), pul (grass)
  • 15 duplicate concepts are genuine: Proto-Dravidian has multiple attested roots for "father" (appa, ayya, tantay), "mother" (amma, āy, awwa), "old" (paẓa, mutV). These reflect different Dravidian subgroup innovations.
  • The use of H notation (aH, caH, puH) for laryngeals is consistent with modern Proto-Dravidian reconstruction conventions.
  • No hallucination indicators. This is the highest-quality lexicon in the set.