Pith Number

pith:YPXVKQQJ

pith:2026:YPXVKQQJR4Q5TYPTDXJ2G3LCMP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The African Language Tax: Quantifying the Cost, Latency, and Context Penalty of Tokenizing African Languages in Frontier LLMs

Olaoye Anthony Somide

arxiv:2606.24460 v1 · 2026-06-23 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YPXVKQQJR4Q5TYPTDXJ2G3LCMP}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-24T01:15:31.017993Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c3ef5542098f21d9e1f31dd3a36d6263f954b6e9229c52f3e5a232ec2ec50aec

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.24460 · arxiv_version: 2606.24460v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.24460 · pith_short_12: YPXVKQQJR4Q5 · pith_short_16: YPXVKQQJR4Q5TYPT · pith_short_8: YPXVKQQJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YPXVKQQJR4Q5TYPTDXJ2G3LCMP \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: c3ef5542098f21d9e1f31dd3a36d6263f954b6e9229c52f3e5a232ec2ec50aec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e7d6487bdb21ab238eb94b3a6093250fa1164ec86b2f0461abfa4ec4acadbb7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-23T11:47:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "86f485a2006769baeb929a5e194f5d7caa5295c76e9152b48f5901562e7ce016"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.24460",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}