diff --git a/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm
index 50be99ba6f..50e6c8e0f9 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm
@@ -839,3 +839,33 @@ effectively integers that are interpreted as being scaled by a constant
 factor.  Consequently, they have a fixed number of digits (bits) after the
 decimal (radix) point.")
     (license license:expat)))
+
+(define-public julia-tokenize
+  (package
+    (name "julia-tokenize")
+    (version "0.5.6")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method git-fetch)
+       (uri (git-reference
+             (url "https://github.com/JuliaLang/Tokenize.jl")
+             (commit (string-append "v" version))))
+       (file-name "Tokenize")
+       (sha256
+        (base32 "1i05y9wvy5lii082bsn6qqs65nc9lvhw3mvl6jqmpdm5xqxw5mrg"))))
+    (build-system julia-build-system)
+    (home-page "https://github.com/JuliaLang/Tokenize.jl")
+    (synopsis "Tokenization for Julia source code")
+    (description "@code{Tokenize.jl} is a Julia package that serves a similar
+purpose and API as the tokenize module in Python but for Julia.  This is to
+take a string or buffer containing Julia code, perform lexical analysis and
+return a stream of tokens.
+
+The goals of this package is to be:
+@enumerate
+@item Fast
+@item Round trippable
+@item Non error throwing
+@end enumerate
+")
+    (license license:expat)))