diff --git a/src/tokenizers.js b/src/tokenizers.js
index bb9bd1261..4f8a1b03a 100644
--- a/src/tokenizers.js
+++ b/src/tokenizers.js
@@ -1384,10 +1384,10 @@ class WhitespaceSplit extends PreTokenizer {
 
 class PreTrainedTokenizer extends Callable {
     /**
-   * Create a new PreTrainedTokenizer instance.
-   * @param {Object} tokenizerJSON - The JSON of the tokenizer.
-   * @param {Object} tokenizerConfig - The config of the tokenizer.
-   */
+     * Create a new PreTrainedTokenizer instance.
+     * @param {Object} tokenizerJSON - The JSON of the tokenizer.
+     * @param {Object} tokenizerConfig - The config of the tokenizer.
+     */
     constructor(tokenizerJSON, tokenizerConfig) {
         super();
 
@@ -2279,7 +2279,52 @@ class WhisperTokenizer extends PreTrainedTokenizer {
 }
 class CodeGenTokenizer extends PreTrainedTokenizer { }
 class CLIPTokenizer extends PreTrainedTokenizer { }
-class MarianTokenizer extends PreTrainedTokenizer { }
+class MarianTokenizer extends PreTrainedTokenizer {
+    /**
+     * Create a new MarianTokenizer instance.
+     * @param {Object} tokenizerJSON - The JSON of the tokenizer.
+     * @param {Object} tokenizerConfig - The config of the tokenizer.
+     */
+    constructor(tokenizerJSON, tokenizerConfig) {
+        super(tokenizerJSON, tokenizerConfig);
+
+        this.languageRegex = /^(>>\w+<<)\s*/g;
+
+        this.supported_language_codes = this.model.vocab.filter(
+            x => this.languageRegex.test(x)
+        );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Encodes a single text. Overriding this method is necessary since the language codes
+     * must be removed before encoding with sentencepiece model.
+     * @see https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/12d51db243a00726a548a43cc333390ebae731e3/src/transformers/models/marian/tokenization_marian.py#L204-L213
+     *
+     * @param {string|null} text - The text to encode.
+     * @returns {Array} The encoded tokens.
+     */
+    _encode_text(text) {
+        if (text === null) return null;
+
+        // Check if text starts with language code:
+        let [matchInfo, ...remainder] = text.trim().split(this.languageRegex);
+
+        if (remainder.length === 0) {
+            // No language code, encode normally
+            return super._encode_text(matchInfo);
+
+        } else if (remainder.length === 2) {
+            // Text starts with language code, so we do not encode it with sentencepiece.
+            let [language, text] = remainder;
+
+            if (!this.supported_language_codes.includes(language)) {
+                console.warn(`Unsupported language code "${language}" detected, which may lead to unexpected behavior. Should be one of: ${JSON.stringify(this.supported_language_codes)}`)
+            }
+            return [language, ...super._encode_text(text)]
+        }
+    }
+
+}
 
 /**
  * A trie structure to efficiently store and search for strings.