diff --git a/buildroot-external/Config.in b/buildroot-external/Config.in
index 4f6de1fb..38a5913f 100644
--- a/buildroot-external/Config.in
+++ b/buildroot-external/Config.in
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ menu "Additional external python modules"
 	source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_OPENVOICEOS_PATH/package/python-neon-transformers/Config.in"
 	source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_OPENVOICEOS_PATH/package/python-neon-utterance-plugin-rake/Config.in"
 	source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_OPENVOICEOS_PATH/package/python-nested-lookup/Config.in"
+	source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_OPENVOICEOS_PATH/package/python-nltk/Config.in"
 	source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_OPENVOICEOS_PATH/package/python-num2words/Config.in"
 	source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_OPENVOICEOS_PATH/package/python-oauth2client/Config.in"
 	source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_OPENVOICEOS_PATH/package/python-olefile/Config.in"
diff --git a/buildroot-external/package/python-nltk/Config.in b/buildroot-external/package/python-nltk/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8523b877
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildroot-external/package/python-nltk/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_NLTK
+	bool "python-nltk"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_CLICK # runtime
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_JOBLIB # runtime
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_REGEX # runtime
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_TQDM # runtime
+	help
+	  Natural Language Toolkit.
+
+	  https://www.nltk.org/
diff --git a/buildroot-external/package/python-nltk/python-nltk.hash b/buildroot-external/package/python-nltk/python-nltk.hash
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1cb56f5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildroot-external/package/python-nltk/python-nltk.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/nltk/json
+md5  501b06f95281115c8afb799449b6cc54  nltk-3.8.1.zip
+sha256  1834da3d0682cba4f2cede2f9aad6b0fafb6461ba451db0efb6f9c39798d64d3  nltk-3.8.1.zip
+# Locally computed sha256 checksums
+sha256  3ddf9be5c28fe27dad143a5dc76eea25222ad1dd68934a047064e56ed2fa40c5  LICENSE.txt
diff --git a/buildroot-external/package/python-nltk/python-nltk.mk b/buildroot-external/package/python-nltk/python-nltk.mk
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4f3a4284
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildroot-external/package/python-nltk/python-nltk.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-nltk
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_NLTK_VERSION = 3.8.1
+PYTHON_NLTK_SOURCE = nltk-$(PYTHON_NLTK_VERSION).zip
+PYTHON_NLTK_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/57/49/51af17a2b0d850578d0022408802aa452644d40281a6c6e82f7cb0235ddb
+PYTHON_NLTK_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+PYTHON_NLTK_LICENSE = Apache-2.0
+PYTHON_NLTK_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.txt
+
+define PYTHON_NLTK_EXTRACT_CMDS
+        $(UNZIP) -d $(@D) $(DL_DIR)/python-nltk/$(PYTHON_NLTK_SOURCE)
+        mv $(@D)/nltk-$(PYTHON_NLTK_VERSION)/* $(@D)
+        $(RM) -r $(@D)/nltk-$(PYTHON_NLTK_VERSION)
+endef
+
+$(eval $(python-package))