diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index fe68f3d7..f5f88347 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -534,3 +534,6 @@
 [submodule "vendor/grammars/carto-atom"]
 	path = vendor/grammars/carto-atom
 	url = https://github.com/yohanboniface/carto-atom
+[submodule "vendor/grammars/Sublime-Nit"]
+	path = vendor/grammars/Sublime-Nit
+	url = https://github.com/R4PaSs/Sublime-Nit
diff --git a/grammars.yml b/grammars.yml
index 222859f1..aa547ead 100644
--- a/grammars.yml
+++ b/grammars.yml
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ vendor/grammars/Sublime-Logos:
 - source.logos
 vendor/grammars/Sublime-Loom:
 - source.loomscript
+vendor/grammars/Sublime-Nit:
+- source.nit
 vendor/grammars/Sublime-QML:
 - source.qml
 vendor/grammars/Sublime-REBOL:
diff --git a/lib/linguist/languages.yml b/lib/linguist/languages.yml
index 46d77f0a..fff416c7 100644
--- a/lib/linguist/languages.yml
+++ b/lib/linguist/languages.yml
@@ -1912,7 +1912,7 @@ Nit:
   color: "#0d8921"
   extensions:
   - .nit
-  tm_scope: none
+  tm_scope: source.nit
   ace_mode: text
 
 Nix:
diff --git a/vendor/grammars/Sublime-Nit b/vendor/grammars/Sublime-Nit
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..7d8b3503
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/grammars/Sublime-Nit
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 7d8b3503923edb3dd0fa0f8e0684dd33e7897446