diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 007b0430b14..824bc8037c3 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2861,6 +2861,12 @@ libcommoncpp.so.8 ucommon-7.0.0_1
 libmupdf.so.1.11 libmupdf-1.11_4
 libmupdfthird.so.1.11 libmupdf-1.11_4
 libmuthreads.so.1.11 libmupdf-1.11_4
+libdatrie.so.1 libdatrie-0.2.10_1
+libthai.so.0 libthai-0.1.26_1
+libm17n-flt.so.0 m17n-lib-1.7.0_1
+libm17n-gui.so.0 m17n-lib-1.7.0_1
+libm17n-core.so.0 m17n-lib-1.7.0_1
+libm17n.so.0 m17n-lib-1.7.0_1
 libprotobuf-lite.so.14 protobuf-lite-3.4.0_1
 libprotoc.so.14 protobuf-3.4.0_1
 libprotobuf.so.14 protobuf-3.4.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/m17n-lib-devel b/srcpkgs/m17n-lib-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..13dc8a37879
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/m17n-lib-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+m17n-lib
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/m17n-lib/template b/srcpkgs/m17n-lib/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eb67fcf2d91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/m17n-lib/template
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Template file for 'm17n-lib'
+pkgname=m17n-lib
+version=1.7.0
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+makedepends="libxml2-devel fribidi-devel freetype-devel fontconfig-devel gd-devel
+ libXft-devel libotf-devel libthai-devel m17n-db $(vopt_if anthy anthy-devel)"
+depends="m17n-db"
+short_desc="Multilingual text processing library"
+maintainer="newbluemoon <blaumolch@mailbox.org>"
+license="LGPL-2.1"
+homepage="http://www.nongnu.org/m17n/"
+distfiles="${NONGNU_SITE}/${pkgname/-lib/}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=8eb853e1e0c86a70a09871f3264f950e5d62bba98960b3ffcde11511c138db83
+disable_parallel_build=yes
+
+build_options="anthy"
+desc_option_anthy="Enable anthy Japanese input system"
+
+# without the flags configure won’t detect fribidi
+CFLAGS+=" -I${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include"
+CPPFLAGS+=" -I${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include"
+
+m17n-lib-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${makedepends} ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+	}
+}