Yásnaya Aguilar
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Yásnaya Aguilar | |
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 Yásnaya Aguilar in 2019 | |
| Born | Ayutla Mixe (San Pedro y San Pablo Ayutla) |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| Education | UNAM |
Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil (Ayutla Mixe, Oaxaca, 16 October 1981) is a Mixe writer, linguist, translator and linguistic rights activist. She works and publishes in Ayuujk (mixe), Castillan (Spanish) and English.[1]
Aguilar Gil earned a degree in Hispanic Language and Literatures at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), completing in 2004 a thesis on the diachrony of constituent order in Spanish. She later pursued a master’s degree in Hispanic Linguistics at UNAM, where she developed a strong interest in language studies and began researching the grammar of her mother tongue, the Southern Upper Mixe (Ayuujk).[2] Aguilar Gil is a notable linguistic rights advocate, addressing the systemic neglect of "indigenous languages" and the historical marginalization of their speakers.
