Vianne Basulto, 2025-2026 AY FLAS Recipient

March 2, 2026

Meet AY FLAS awardee, Vianne Basulto. Vianne is a master’s student in Linguistics, studying Nahuatl. Vianne “started studying Nahuatl after a chance encounter with a Nahuatl study group poster in the Regenstein Library at UChicago. I quickly fell in love with the language, admiring its logical composition and poetic compounds. This introduced a spark into my academic life just when I was feeling lost in my path and struggling with motivation.”

Vianne notes that “studying Nahuatl has been incredibly fulfilling, and through my pursuit of this language, I have also found a meaningful way to creating resources for anyone interested in Nahuatl as well as the dormant and/or understudied languages with the Uto-Aztecan language family.”