diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/1.6.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/1.6.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..952050f0e8f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/1.6.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses, readline, autoreconfHook }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "1.6.1";
+  name = "hunspell-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0j9c20sj7bgd6f77193g1ihy8w905byk2gdhdc0r9dsh7irr7x9h";
+  };
+
+  outputs = [ "bin" "dev" "out" "man" ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ ncurses readline ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook ];
+
+  autoreconfFlags = "-vfi";
+
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-ui" "--with-readline" ];
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = http://hunspell.sourceforge.net;
+    description = "Spell checker";
+    longDescription = ''
+      Hunspell is the spell checker of LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla
+      Firefox 3 & Thunderbird, Google Chrome, and it is also used by
+      proprietary software packages, like Mac OS X, InDesign, memoQ, Opera and
+      SDL Trados.
+
+      Main features:
+
+      * Extended support for language peculiarities; Unicode character encoding, compounding and complex morphology.
+      * Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronunciation data.
+      * Morphological analysis, stemming and generation.
+      * Hunspell is based on MySpell and works also with MySpell dictionaries.
+      * C++ library under GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license.
+      * Interfaces and ports:
+        * Enchant (Generic spelling library from the Abiword project),
+        * XSpell (Mac OS X port, but Hunspell is part of the OS X from version 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and
+            now it is enough to place Hunspell dictionary files into
+            ~/Library/Spelling or /Library/Spelling for spell checking),
+        * Delphi, Java (JNA, JNI), Perl, .NET, Python, Ruby ([1], [2]), UNO.
+    '';
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ fuuzetsu ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 84cfd7486891..3557b7b5cffe 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7737,6 +7737,7 @@ with pkgs;
   http-parser = callPackage ../development/libraries/http-parser { };
 
   hunspell = callPackage ../development/libraries/hunspell { };
+  hunspell_1_6 = callPackage ../development/libraries/hunspell/1.6.nix { };
 
   hunspellDicts = recurseIntoAttrs (callPackages ../development/libraries/hunspell/dictionaries.nix {});