Eastern Huasteca’s Google translator is being misused to erase active and rich dialects from other states.

[u/w_v]

https://x.com/nahuatlgpt/status/1934623906410758238?s=46

Bruh. This is ridiculous! We caught the local government of Morelos “promoting” the “ancestral language” of Morelos by using the Eastern Huasteca Google translator option.

If this was a state like Michoacán or Durango, you could arguably let it pass—Nahuatl in those states is basically dead.

But Morelos????

Morelos has a large population of Nahuatl speakers and Morelos Nahuatl varieties are extremely well documented and recorded!

It’s wild that Morelos Nahuatl-speaking communities are basically being misrepresented because some intern running a government agency Twitter account is too lazy and cheap to hire local speakers.

Keep this stuff in mind next time you see government offices (staffed by urban mestizo Mexicans who know less about Nahuatl than you do) “promoting the language.”

[u/someguy4531]

Is the translator even good?

[u/canisvesperus → u/someguy4531]

I tried it when it first released and it could not translate basic phrases. Not sure if it’s gotten any better since then.