diff --git a/src/llama-vocab.cpp b/src/llama-vocab.cpp
index 5eeae0585..6192fd195 100644
--- a/src/llama-vocab.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-vocab.cpp
@@ -710,7 +710,6 @@ struct llm_tokenizer_wpm {
                 continue;
             }
 
-            assert (!categ.is_S());
             if (cpt == 0 || cpt == 0xFFFD || categ.is_C()) {
                 continue;
             }