diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 7e6b6fb0d1d..b8fda590d5f 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -4027,3 +4027,4 @@ librnnoise.so.0 rnnoise-0.4.1_1
 liblhasa.so.0 lhasa-0.3.1_2
 libmt32emu.so.2 libmt32emu-2.5.1_1
 libqrtr-glib.so.0 libqrtr-glib-1.0.0_1
+libstemmer.so.2 libstemmer-2.1.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libstemmer b/srcpkgs/libstemmer
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..80a797598ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libstemmer
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+snowball
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libstemmer-devel b/srcpkgs/libstemmer-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..80a797598ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libstemmer-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+snowball
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/snowball/patches/libstemmer-library.patch b/srcpkgs/snowball/patches/libstemmer-library.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4dbb89061be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/snowball/patches/libstemmer-library.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+based on alpine patches which are based on gentoo patches
+https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/blob/d16eed94064539a7a1f0242709e8d7b76448c51a/community/snowball/libstemmer-library.patch
+
+--- a/GNUmakefile
++++ b/GNUmakefile
+@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
+ CFLAGS=-O2 -W -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
+ CPPFLAGS=-Iinclude
+ 
+-all: snowball libstemmer.o stemwords $(C_OTHER_SOURCES) $(C_OTHER_HEADERS) $(C_OTHER_OBJECTS)
++all: snowball libstemmer.so libstemmer.o stemwords $(C_OTHER_SOURCES) $(C_OTHER_HEADERS) $(C_OTHER_OBJECTS)
+ 
+ clean:
+ 	rm -f $(COMPILER_OBJECTS) $(RUNTIME_OBJECTS) \
+@@ -212,6 +212,9 @@
+ libstemmer.o: libstemmer/libstemmer.o $(RUNTIME_OBJECTS) $(C_LIB_OBJECTS)
+ 	$(AR) -cru $@ $^
+ 
++libstemmer.so: libstemmer/libstemmer.o $(RUNTIME_OBJECTS) $(C_LIB_OBJECTS)
++	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -shared $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-soname,$@.$(shell echo $(SNOWBALL_VERSION) | cut -d. -f1),-version-script,libstemmer/symbol.map -o $@.$(SNOWBALL_VERSION) $^
++
+ stemwords: $(STEMWORDS_OBJECTS) libstemmer.o
+ 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $^
+ 
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/libstemmer/symbol.map
+@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
++SB_STEMMER_0 {
++    global:
++        sb_stemmer_*;
++    local:
++        *;
++};
diff --git a/srcpkgs/snowball/template b/srcpkgs/snowball/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..784d281e145
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/snowball/template
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+# Template file for 'snowball'
+pkgname=snowball
+version=2.1.0
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-makefile
+build_helper=qemu
+make_check_target=check_stemtest # other checks are missing targets in the makefile
+hostmakedepends="perl"
+short_desc="Small string processing language for creating stemming algorithms"
+maintainer="Michal Vasilek <michal@vasilek.cz>"
+license="BSD-3-Clause"
+homepage="https://snowballstem.org/"
+distfiles="https://github.com/snowballstem/snowball/archive/refs/tags/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=24ae0b28d6531190c2cd960d515ec9374d3a3d9420c4a0accdf89b7f02fc9caa
+
+post_patch() {
+	if [ -n "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+		vsed -i GNUmakefile \
+			-e 's|\t\./snowball|\tqemu-${XBPS_TARGET_QEMU_MACHINE}-static ./snowball|'
+	fi
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	vbin snowball
+	vbin stemwords
+
+	vinstall include/libstemmer.h 644 usr/include
+	vinstall libstemmer.so.$version 644 usr/lib
+	ln -s libstemmer.so.$version ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/libstemmer.so
+	ln -s libstemmer.so.$version ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/libstemmer.so.${version%.*.*}
+
+	# the static library has .o suffix
+	# https://github.com/snowballstem/snowball/pull/150
+	vinstall libstemmer.o 644 usr/lib libstemmer.a
+
+	vlicense COPYING
+}
+
+# XXX: upstream doesn't generate a dynamic library for libstemmer
+# each distribution patches this on their own:
+# Arch: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/tree/packages/snowball/trunk
+# Alpine: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/tree/master/community/snowball
+# Gentoo: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-libs/snowball-stemmer
+
+libstemmer_package() {
+	short_desc="Stemming algorithm library"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/lib/libstemmer.so.*"
+	}
+}
+
+libstemmer-devel_package() {
+	depends="libstemmer>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc="Stemming algorithm library - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/lib/libstemmer.a
+		vmove usr/lib/libstemmer.so
+		vmove usr/include
+	}
+}