diff --git a/spacy/lang.pxd b/spacy/lang.pxd
index 5287132c9..356953177 100644
--- a/spacy/lang.pxd
+++ b/spacy/lang.pxd
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from cymem.cymem cimport Pool
 from .typedefs cimport hash_t
 from .tokens cimport Tokens
 from .lexeme cimport Lexeme
+from .pos cimport Tagger as PosTagger
 from .utf8string cimport StringStore
 
 
@@ -40,11 +41,14 @@ cdef class Language:
     cdef PreshMap _specials
     cpdef readonly Lexicon lexicon
 
+    cpdef readonly PosTagger pos_tagger
+
     cdef object _prefix_re
     cdef object _suffix_re
     cdef object _infix_re
 
     cpdef Tokens tokenize(self, unicode text)
+    cpdef Tokens pos_tag(self, Tokens t)
 
     cdef int _tokenize(self, Tokens tokens, String* span, int start, int end) except -1
     cdef String* _split_affixes(self, String* string, vector[Lexeme*] *prefixes,
diff --git a/spacy/lang.pyx b/spacy/lang.pyx
index 9c5b5100f..1058d9acd 100644
--- a/spacy/lang.pyx
+++ b/spacy/lang.pyx
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ from . import util
 from .util import read_lang_data
 from .tokens import Tokens
 
+from .pos cimport Tagger as PosTagger
+
 
 cdef class Language:
     def __init__(self, name):
@@ -39,6 +41,10 @@ cdef class Language:
             self.lexicon.load(path.join(util.DATA_DIR, name, 'lexemes'))
             self.lexicon.strings.load(path.join(util.DATA_DIR, name, 'strings'))
         self._load_special_tokenization(rules)
+        if path.exists(path.join(util.DATA_DIR, name, 'pos')):
+            self.pos_tagger = PosTagger(path.join(util.DATA_DIR, name, 'pos'))
+        else:
+            self.pos_tagger = None
 
     cpdef Tokens tokenize(self, unicode string):
         """Tokenize a string.
@@ -87,6 +93,16 @@ cdef class Language:
                 self._tokenize(tokens, &span, start, i)
         return tokens
 
+    cpdef Tokens pos_tag(self, Tokens t):
+        if self.pos_tagger is None:
+            return t
+        cdef int i
+        t.pos[-1] = self.pos_tagger.encode_pos('EOL')
+        t.pos[-2] = self.pos_tagger.encode_pos('EOL')
+        for i in range(t.length):
+            t.pos[i] = self.pos_tagger.predict(i, t, t.pos[i-1], t.pos[i-2])
+        return t
+
     cdef int _tokenize(self, Tokens tokens, String* span, int start, int end) except -1:
         cdef vector[Lexeme*] prefixes
         cdef vector[Lexeme*] suffixes