diff --git a/frontend/static/languages/_groups.json b/frontend/static/languages/_groups.json
index ea5085d40..a0870557d 100644
--- a/frontend/static/languages/_groups.json
+++ b/frontend/static/languages/_groups.json
@@ -290,7 +290,8 @@
       "code_swift",
       "code_bash",
       "code_lua",
-      "code_luau"
+      "code_luau",
+      "code_matlab"
     ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/frontend/static/languages/_list.json b/frontend/static/languages/_list.json
index bf533a50e..f18c1d55d 100644
--- a/frontend/static/languages/_list.json
+++ b/frontend/static/languages/_list.json
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@
   ,"code_bash"
   ,"code_lua"
   ,"code_luau"
+  ,"code_matlab"
   ,"hindi"
   ,"hindi_1k"
   ,"macedonian"
diff --git a/frontend/static/languages/code_matlab.json b/frontend/static/languages/code_matlab.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aa9ce5b7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/static/languages/code_matlab.json
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+{
+  "name": "code_matlab",
+  "leftToRight": true,
+  "noLazyMode": true,
+  "words": [
+    "x",
+    "X",
+    ".^",
+    "plot",
+    "plot3",
+    "contour",
+    "contour3",
+    "y",
+    "Y",
+    "function[]",
+    "for",
+    "end",
+    "meshgrid",
+    "a:0.1:b",
+    "cos()",
+    "sin()",
+    "cosh()",
+    "sinh()",
+    "cos()",
+    "tan()",
+    "log()",
+    "sqrt()",
+    "exp()",
+    "@(x)",
+    "i=0",
+    "i++",
+    "~=",
+    "&&",
+    "==",
+    "linspace",
+    "ans",
+    "pi",
+    "nan",
+    "eps",
+    "real()",
+    "angle()",
+    "ceil",
+    "longspace",
+    "abs",
+    "floor",
+    "hold",
+    "figure",
+    "factorial()",
+    "round()",
+    "table()",
+    "surf()",
+    "scatter()",
+    "quiver()",
+    "f(x)",
+    "sign()",
+    "%comment",
+    "else",
+    "curl()",
+    "integral()",
+    "break",
+    "continue",
+    "roots()",
+    "normalize()",
+    "sort()",
+    "table()",
+    "text()",
+    "label()",
+    "zeros()",
+    "ones()",
+    "||"
+  ]
+}