diff --git a/mako/ext/linguaplugin.py b/mako/ext/linguaplugin.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3bbdb2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mako/ext/linguaplugin.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+from lingua.extractors import Extractor
+from lingua.extractors.python import _extract_python
+from mako.ext.extract import MessageExtractor
+
+
+class LinguaMakoExtractor(Extractor, MessageExtractor):
+    '''Mako templates'''
+    extensions = ['.mako']
+    default_config = {
+            'encoding': 'utf-8',
+            }
+
+    def __call__(self, filename, options):
+        self.options = options
+        self.filename = filename
+        with open(filename) as input:
+            return self.process_file(fileobj)
+
+    def process_python(self, code, code_lineno, translator_strings):
+        for msg in _extract_python(self.filename, code.getvalue(), self.options,
+                code_lineno):
+            if translator_strings:
+                msg = Message(msg.msgctxt, msg.msgid, msg.msgid_plural,
+                              msg.flags,
+                              u' '.join(translator_strings + [msg.comment]),
+                              msg.tcomment, msg.location)
+            yield msg
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a62a301..93f861a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@
       [babel.extractors]
       mako = mako.ext.babelplugin:extract
 
+      [lingua.extractors]
+      mako = mako.ext.linguaplugin:LinguaMakoExtractor
+
       [console_scripts]
       mako-render = mako.cmd:cmdline
       """
diff --git a/test/ext/test_linguaplugin.py b/test/ext/test_linguaplugin.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..841f206
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/ext/test_linguaplugin.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import io
+import mock
+import unittest
+from mako.ext.linguaplugin import LinguaMakoExtractor
+
+
+class MockOptions:
+    keywords = []
+    domain = None
+
+
+class Test_LinguaMakoExtractor(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_parse_python_expression(self):
+        plugin = LinguaMakoExtractor()
+        plugin.options = MockOptions()
+        plugin.filename = 'dummy.mako'
+        input = io.BytesIO(b'<p>${_("Message")}</p>')
+        messages = list(plugin.process_file(input))
+        self.assertEqual(len(messages), 1)