diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/hyphen/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/hyphen/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9f30ff54823f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/hyphen/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl, ... }:
+
+let
+  version = "2.8.8";
+  folder = with builtins;
+    let parts = splitVersion version;
+    in concatStringsSep "." [ (elemAt parts 0) (elemAt parts 1) ];
+in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "hyphen";
+  inherit version;
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ perl ];
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url =
+      "https://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hyphen/${folder}/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "01ap9pr6zzzbp4ky0vy7i1983fwyqy27pl0ld55s30fdxka3ciih";
+  };
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A text hyphenation library";
+    homepage = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hyphen/";
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl2 lgpl21 mpl11 ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ filalex77 ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 5fe2129fef67b..19aed0a4e4cce 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3992,6 +3992,8 @@ in
 
   hylafaxplus = callPackage ../servers/hylafaxplus { };
 
+  hyphen = callPackage ../development/libraries/hyphen { };
+
   i2c-tools = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/i2c-tools { };
 
   i2p = callPackage ../tools/networking/i2p {};