diff --git a/kotlin.nanorc b/kotlin.nanorc
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Nano syntax file
+# Language:     Kotlin
+# Maintainer:   Bjarne Holen <bjarneholen@gmail.com>
+# Edited by:    Ritiek Malhotra <ritiekmalhotra123@gmail.com>
+# Last Change:  2017 May 24
+# Copyright (c) 2014, Bjarne Holen
+
+syntax "kotlin" "\.kt$" "\.kts$"
+color magenta "\b(([1-9][0-9]+)|0+)\.[0-9]+\b" "\b[1-9][0-9]*\b" "\b0[0-7]*\b" "\b0x[1-9a-f][0-9a-f]*\b"
+color yellow "[.:;,+*|=!\%@]" "<" ">" "/" "-" "&"
+color green "\<(namespace|as|type|class|this|super|val|var|fun|is|in|object|when|trait|import|where|by|get|set|abstract|enum|open|annotation|override|private|public|internal|protected|out|vararg|inline|final|package)\>"
+color yellow "\<(true|false|null)\>"
+color cyan "\<(break|catch|continue|do|else|finally|for|if|return|throw|try|while|repeat)\>"
+color brightred "\<(inner|outer)\>"
+##
+## String highlighting.  You will in general want your comments and
+## strings to come last, because syntax highlighting rules will be
+## applied in the order they are read in.
+color brightblue "<[^= 	]*>" ""(\\.|[^"])*""
+
+## Comment highlighting
+color red "//.*"
+color red start="/\*" end="\*/"
+
+## Trailing whitespace
+color ,green "[[:space:]]+$"
diff --git a/nanorc b/nanorc
index 84a810e..0300957 100644
--- a/nanorc
+++ b/nanorc
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ include "~/.nano/js.nanorc"
 include "~/.nano/json.nanorc"
 include "~/.nano/keymap.nanorc"
 include "~/.nano/kickstart.nanorc"
+include "~/.nano/kotlin.nanorc"
 include "~/.nano/ledger.nanorc"
 include "~/.nano/lisp.nanorc"
 include "~/.nano/lua.nanorc"