diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 0c20fdde..327d4703 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -120,3 +120,6 @@
 [submodule "assets/syntaxes/Jsonnet"]
 	path = assets/syntaxes/Jsonnet
 	url = https://github.com/gburiola/sublime-jsonnet-syntax.git
+[submodule "assets/syntaxes/varlink"]
+	path = assets/syntaxes/varlink
+	url = https://github.com/varlink/syntax-highlight-varlink.git
diff --git a/assets/syntaxes/varlink b/assets/syntaxes/varlink
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..04f30d4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/syntaxes/varlink
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 04f30d4b831232ea23ffceb5b2da61e12dae5db6