diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/somajo/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/somajo/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f052da2bf7b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/somajo/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ pkgs, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildPythonPackage, isPy3k, regex }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "SoMaJo";
+  version = "2.0.4";
+  disabled = !isPy3k;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "tsproisl";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "126jaslg8cfap2is3sy3v13xpl9drb80yc5lfsm1nw5s2xcxklqw";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ regex ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Tokenizer and sentence splitter for German and English web texts";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/tsproisl/SoMaJo";
+    license = licenses.gpl3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ danieldk ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 7c51a3feedbc..fcb2cf9e4aa6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -6938,6 +6938,8 @@ in {
 
   yahooweather = callPackage ../development/python-modules/yahooweather { };
 
+  somajo = callPackage ../development/python-modules/somajo { };
+
   spacy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/spacy { };
 
   spacy_models = callPackage ../development/python-modules/spacy/models.nix { };