diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pysbd/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pysbd/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e1e0578c83b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pysbd/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, pythonOlder
+, tqdm
+, spacy
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "pysbd";
+  version = "0.3.3";
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.5";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "56ab48a28a8470f0042a4cb7c9da8a6dde8621ecf87a86d75f201cbf1837e77f";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ tqdm spacy ];
+
+  doCheck = false; # requires pyconll and blingfire
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "pysbd" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Pysbd (Python Sentence Boundary Disambiguation) is a rule-based sentence boundary detection that works out-of-the-box across many languages";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/nipunsadvilkar/pySBD";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.mic92 ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 51ae93b0eb18..ec3145a630ca 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4568,6 +4568,8 @@ in {
 
   pkuseg = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pkuseg { };
 
+  pysbd = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pysbd { };
+
   python-csxcad = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-csxcad { };
 
   python-openems = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-openems { };