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Adversarial Audit: Hittite (hit)

Source Verification

  • Claimed source: wiktionary
  • Entry count: 266
  • Entry count plausible: YES (expected 200-800 for well-attested Hittite)

Format Verification

  • Header correct: YES (Word\tIPA\tSCA\tSource\tConcept_ID\tCognate_Set_ID)
  • All rows have 6 fields: YES (0 malformed rows)
  • Duplicate entries: 0

Content Verification (10 random samples)

# Word IPA SCA Gloss IPA Valid? SCA Valid?
1 annas annas ANNAS mother YES YES
2 antuwahhas antuwaxxas ANTUWAKAS man_human YES YES
3 daasshuush taasshuush TAU all,_whole,_entire YES YES
4 eeshhaahru eeshxaahxru EKAKRU tears YES YES
5 ekkus ekkus EKUS horse YES YES
6 humanza xumantsa KUMANTSA all YES YES
7 lalas lalas LALAS tongue YES YES
8 maaahhlaas maahaxlaash MAAKLA (branch_of)_grape_vine YES YES
9 nekuz nekuts NEKUTS evening,_nightfall YES YES
10 walahzi walaxtsi WALAKTSI to_hit YES YES

Hallucination Check

  • Round entry count: NO (266)
  • Generic glosses found: 0
  • Empty fields: 0
  • Word==IPA entries: 71/266 (26.7%)
  • Empty/missing concepts (dash): 16/266 (6.0%)
  • Wiki artifact glosses: 0

Cognate & Source Metadata

  • Cognate_Set_ID: all entries are "-" (not populated)
  • SCA character inventory: A, E, I, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, U, W, Y (14 classes, valid)

Verdict: PASS

Notes

  • The 26.7% Word==IPA rate is acceptable for Hittite. Many Hittite words use Latin-compatible orthography (e.g., "annas", "lalas", "patas") where the romanized form happens to match standard IPA. Words with cuneiform-specific characters (ḫ, š) are properly converted (e.g., ḫuuš -> xuuš, šakawiš -> šakawiš with IPA ʃ).
  • Transliteration mapping is correctly applied: d->t, g->k, ḫ->x, š->ʃ, z->ts transformations are visible throughout the data, consistent with Hittite phonological conventions (Melchert, Kloekhorst).
  • 16 entries have no gloss (dash in Concept_ID), which is acceptable for a Wiktionary-scraped dataset where some entries may lack definitions.
  • Entry count of 266 is linguistically plausible for a curated Hittite vocabulary from Wiktionary.
  • No fabricated or generic glosses detected. Glosses are specific and linguistically coherent (e.g., "soothing_substance,_(opium)_poppy?", "watchtower,_lookout,_guardpost;_fort,_stronghold").