diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/segments/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/segments/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8c2e22708aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/segments/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, isPy27
+, regex
+, csvw
+, clldutils
+, mock
+, pytestCheckHook
+, pytest-mock
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "segments";
+  version = "2.1.3";
+  disabled = isPy27;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "cldf";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "12lnpk834r3y7hw5x7nvswa60ddh69ylvr44k46gqcfba160hhb0";
+  };
+
+  patchPhase = ''
+    substituteInPlace setup.cfg --replace "--cov" ""
+  '';
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    regex
+    csvw
+    clldutils
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    mock
+    pytestCheckHook
+    pytest-mock
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Unicode Standard tokenization routines and orthography profile segmentation";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/cldf/segments";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ hexa ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 3c5e8cd9931..e3c07aea749 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -6361,6 +6361,8 @@ in {
 
   seekpath = callPackage ../development/python-modules/seekpath { };
 
+  segments = callPackage ../development/python-modules/segments { };
+
   selectors2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/selectors2 { };
 
   selectors34 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/selectors34 { };