diff --git a/pmd-dist/pom.xml b/pmd-dist/pom.xml
index c20a5e01f5..2cfa733b53 100644
--- a/pmd-dist/pom.xml
+++ b/pmd-dist/pom.xml
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@
             <artifactId>pmd-matlab</artifactId>
             <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
+            <artifactId>pmd-perl</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
             <artifactId>pmd-objectivec</artifactId>
diff --git a/pmd-perl/pom.xml b/pmd-perl/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4e3a5c1a42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pmd-perl/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <artifactId>pmd-perl</artifactId>
+    <name>PMD Perl</name>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
+        <artifactId>pmd</artifactId>
+        <version>5.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+
+    <properties>
+        <config.basedir>${basedir}/../pmd-core</config.basedir>
+    </properties>
+
+    <build>
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
+                <filtering>true</filtering>
+            </resource>
+        </resources>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <useDefaultDelimiters>false</useDefaultDelimiters>
+                    <delimiters>
+                        <delimiter>${*}</delimiter>
+                    </delimiters>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
+                <artifactId>pmd-build</artifactId>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>pmd-clean</id>
+                        <phase>clean</phase>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <target>
+                                <echo>PMD specific tasks: cleaning generated markdown</echo>
+                                <delete quiet="true">
+                                    <fileset dir="${basedir}/src/site/markdown/rules/" includes="**/*.md" />
+                                    <fileset dir="${basedir}/src/site/markdown/" includes="mergedruleset.xml" />
+                                    <fileset dir="${basedir}/src/site/" includes="site.xml" />
+                                </delete>
+                            </target>
+                        </configuration>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>run</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
+            <artifactId>pmd-core</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.mozilla</groupId>
+            <artifactId>rhino</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
+            <artifactId>pmd-test</artifactId>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/pmd-perl/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/PerlLanguage.java b/pmd-perl/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/PerlLanguage.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ff2863acaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pmd-perl/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/PerlLanguage.java
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+/**
+ * BSD-style license; for more info see http://pmd.sourceforge.net/license.html
+ */
+package net.sourceforge.pmd.cpd;
+
+public class PerlLanguage extends AbstractLanguage {
+	public PerlLanguage() {
+		super("Perl", "perl", new PerlTokenizer(), ".pm", ".pl", ".t");
+	}
+}
diff --git a/pmd-perl/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/PerlTokenizer.java b/pmd-perl/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/PerlTokenizer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2cd01e19f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pmd-perl/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/PerlTokenizer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/**
+ * BSD-style license; for more info see http://pmd.sourceforge.net/license.html
+ */
+package net.sourceforge.pmd.cpd;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+
+public class PerlTokenizer extends AbstractTokenizer {
+    public PerlTokenizer() {
+        this.stringToken = new ArrayList<>();
+        this.stringToken.add( "\'" );
+        this.stringToken.add( "\"" );
+
+        this.ignorableCharacter = new ArrayList<>();
+
+        this.ignorableStmt = new ArrayList<>();
+
+        this.spanMultipleLinesString = true;
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pmd-perl/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/net.sourceforge.pmd.cpd.Language b/pmd-perl/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/net.sourceforge.pmd.cpd.Language
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..40f6f3a026
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pmd-perl/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/net.sourceforge.pmd.cpd.Language
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+net.sourceforge.pmd.cpd.PerlLanguage
diff --git a/pmd-perl/src/site/markdown/index.md b/pmd-perl/src/site/markdown/index.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..251674558c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pmd-perl/src/site/markdown/index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# PMD Perl
+
+Contains the PMD implementation to support the Perl programming language.
+
+Only very basic CPD support is implemented currently.
diff --git a/pmd-perl/src/site/site.pre.xml b/pmd-perl/src/site/site.pre.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c8294e1b52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pmd-perl/src/site/site.pre.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project
+  xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/DECORATION/1.1.0"
+  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/DECORATION/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/decoration-1.1.0.xsd"
+  name="PMD Perl">
+
+  <body>
+    <menu ref="parent"/>
+
+    <!-- The rulesets part of navigation will be added during pre-site and the
+         list is build dynamically based on rulesets folder directory layout -->
+
+
+    <menu name="Rule Sets"/>
+
+
+    <!-- *********** -->
+
+    <menu ref="reports"/>
+
+  </body>
+</project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c3ca76f94b..772da1935e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -932,6 +932,7 @@
         <module>pmd-jsp</module>
         <module>pmd-matlab</module>
         <module>pmd-objectivec</module>
+        <module>pmd-perl</module>
         <module>pmd-php</module>
         <module>pmd-plsql</module>
         <module>pmd-python</module>