diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index e94bbcb8..9f63d867 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -135,3 +135,6 @@
 [submodule "assets/syntaxes/DotENV"]
 	path = assets/syntaxes/DotENV
 	url = https://github.com/zaynali53/DotENV
+[submodule "assets/syntaxes/hosts"]
+	path = assets/syntaxes/hosts
+	url = https://github.com/brandonwamboldt/sublime-hosts
diff --git a/assets/syntaxes/Hosts.sublime-syntax b/assets/syntaxes/Hosts.sublime-syntax
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..eac0ec0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/syntaxes/Hosts.sublime-syntax
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+# http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/syntax.html
+name: hosts
+file_extensions:
+  - hosts
+scope: source.hosts
+
+contexts:
+  main:
+    - scope: comment.line.number-sign
+      match: \#.*
+      comment: comment
+
+    - match: ^\s*([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}|[0-9a-f:]+)
+      comment: ipaddress
+      scope: constant.numeric.ipaddress
+
+
+    - match: \s(localhost|ip6-loopback|ip6-localhost|ip6-localnet|ip6-mcastprefix|ip6-allnodes|ip6-allrouters|ip6-allhosts|broadcasthost)\b
+      scope: keyword.host.predefined}
+      comment: prefdfined
+
diff --git a/assets/syntaxes/hosts b/assets/syntaxes/hosts
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..21250a71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/syntaxes/hosts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 21250a7117655b0525821237b98b882dcc231350