diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/fasttext/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/fasttext/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..05034dc75262
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/fasttext/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, numpy, pybind11}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "fasttext";
+  version = "0.2.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "facebookresearch";
+    repo = "fastText";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "1fcrz648r2s80bf7vc0l371xillz5jk3ldaiv9jb7wnsyri831b4";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pybind11 ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ numpy ];
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    HOME=$TMPDIR
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Python module for text classification and representation learning";
+    homepage = https://fasttext.cc/;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ danieldk ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index d9ebd75b5c10..66b9e828409f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -399,6 +399,8 @@ in {
 
   fastpbkdf2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/fastpbkdf2 {  };
 
+  fasttext = callPackage ../development/python-modules/fasttext {  };
+
   favicon = callPackage ../development/python-modules/favicon {  };
 
   fido2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/fido2 {  };