diff --git a/schala-lang/language/src/parsing.rs b/schala-lang/language/src/parsing.rs
index 24f2146..7cdd1ee 100644
--- a/schala-lang/language/src/parsing.rs
+++ b/schala-lang/language/src/parsing.rs
@@ -1231,6 +1231,7 @@ mod parse_tests {
   #[test]
   fn parsing_identifiers() {
     parse_test!("a", AST(vec![exst!(val!("a"))]));
+    parse_test!("some_value", AST(vec![exst!(val!("some_value"))]));
     parse_test!("a + b", AST(vec![exst!(binexp!("+", val!("a"), val!("b")))]));
     //parse_test!("a[b]", AST(vec![Expression(
     //parse_test!("a[]", <- TODO THIS NEEDS TO FAIL
diff --git a/schala-lang/language/src/tokenizing.rs b/schala-lang/language/src/tokenizing.rs
index bd1ca56..a5bd19d 100644
--- a/schala-lang/language/src/tokenizing.rs
+++ b/schala-lang/language/src/tokenizing.rs
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ fn handle_alphabetic(c: char, input: &mut Peekable<impl Iterator<Item=CharData>>
 
   loop {
     match input.peek().map(|&(_, _, c)| { c }) {
-      Some(c) if c.is_alphanumeric() => {
+      Some(c) if c.is_alphanumeric() || c == '_' => {
         input.next();
         buf.push(c);
       },
@@ -300,6 +300,9 @@ mod schala_tokenizer_tests {
   fn underscores() {
     let token_types: Vec<TokenType> = tokenize("4_8").into_iter().map(move |t| t.token_type).collect();
     assert_eq!(token_types, vec![digit!("4"), Underscore, digit!("8")]);
+
+    let token_types2: Vec<TokenType> = tokenize("aba_yo").into_iter().map(move |t| t.token_type).collect();
+    assert_eq!(token_types2, vec![ident!("aba_yo")]);
   }
 
   #[test]