Yolanda Lastra
![Lastra receiving a Science and Art National Prize in 2015](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Yolanda_Lastra.jpg)
Lastra has worked with linguistic documentation and dialectology of the Nahuatl and Otomi languages and is recognized as a leading authority in the studies of Oto-Pamean languages in general. Her 1986 book ''Áreas dialectales del Náhuatl moderno'' is the single most comprehensive work on the dialectology of modern Nahuatl ever published.
Lastra is currently a senior investigator at the Institute of Anthropology at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México. Since May 2014 she is a full member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, the Mexican Language Academy. Provided by Wikipedia
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