diff --git a/src/tokenizer/mod.rs b/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
index d5a804145..bef61daaf 100644
--- a/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
+++ b/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 //! let en_stem = SimpleTokenizer
 //!     .filter(RemoveLongFilter::limit(40))
 //!     .filter(LowerCaser)
-//!     .filter(Stemmer::new());
+//!     .filter(Stemmer::new(Language::English));
 //! # }
 //! ```
 //!
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ pub use self::ngram_tokenizer::NgramTokenizer;
 pub use self::raw_tokenizer::RawTokenizer;
 pub use self::remove_long::RemoveLongFilter;
 pub use self::simple_tokenizer::SimpleTokenizer;
-pub use self::stemmer::Stemmer;
+pub use self::stemmer::{Stemmer, Language};
 pub use self::stop_word_filter::StopWordFilter;
 pub(crate) use self::token_stream_chain::TokenStreamChain;
 pub(crate) use self::tokenizer::box_tokenizer;
@@ -159,8 +159,16 @@ pub use self::tokenizer_manager::TokenizerManager;
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 pub mod tests {
-    use super::Token;
-    use super::TokenizerManager;
+    use super::{
+        Token,
+        TokenizerManager,
+        SimpleTokenizer,
+        Tokenizer,
+        RemoveLongFilter,
+        LowerCaser,
+        Stemmer,
+        Language
+    };
 
     /// This is a function that can be used in tests and doc tests
     /// to assert a token's correctness.
@@ -214,6 +222,7 @@ pub mod tests {
                 .token_stream("Hello, happy tax payer!")
                 .process(&mut add_token);
         }
+
         assert_eq!(tokens.len(), 4);
         assert_token(&tokens[0], 0, "hello", 0, 5);
         assert_token(&tokens[1], 1, "happi", 7, 12);
@@ -221,6 +230,33 @@ pub mod tests {
         assert_token(&tokens[3], 3, "payer", 17, 22);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_non_en_tokenizer() {
+        let tokenizer_manager = TokenizerManager::default();
+        tokenizer_manager.register(
+            "es_stem",
+            SimpleTokenizer
+                .filter(RemoveLongFilter::limit(40))
+                .filter(LowerCaser)
+                .filter(Stemmer::new(Language::Spanish)),
+        );
+        let en_tokenizer = tokenizer_manager.get("es_stem").unwrap();
+        let mut tokens: Vec<Token> = vec![];
+        {
+            let mut add_token = |token: &Token| {
+                tokens.push(token.clone());
+            };
+            en_tokenizer
+                .token_stream("Hola, feliz contribuyente!")
+                .process(&mut add_token);
+        }
+
+        assert_eq!(tokens.len(), 3);
+        assert_token(&tokens[0], 0, "hola", 0, 4);
+        assert_token(&tokens[1], 1, "feliz", 6, 11);
+        assert_token(&tokens[2], 2, "contribuyent", 12, 25);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_tokenizer_empty() {
         let tokenizer_manager = TokenizerManager::default();
diff --git a/src/tokenizer/stemmer.rs b/src/tokenizer/stemmer.rs
index 064662889..19980a59d 100644
--- a/src/tokenizer/stemmer.rs
+++ b/src/tokenizer/stemmer.rs
@@ -4,22 +4,77 @@ use super::{Token, TokenFilter, TokenStream};
 use rust_stemmers::{self, Algorithm};
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
-/// `Stemmer` token filter. Currently only English is supported.
-/// Tokens are expected to be lowercased beforehands.
+/// Available stemmer languages.
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, Eq, PartialEq, Copy, Clone)]
+#[allow(missing_docs)]
+pub enum Language {
+    Arabic,
+    Danish,
+    Dutch,
+    English,
+    Finnish,
+    French,
+    German,
+    Hungarian,
+    Italian,
+    Portuguese,
+    Romanian,
+    Russian,
+    Spanish,
+    Swedish,
+    Tamil,
+    Turkish
+}
+
+impl Language {
+    fn algorithm(&self) -> Algorithm {
+        use self::Language::*;
+
+        match self {
+            Arabic => Algorithm::Arabic,
+            Danish => Algorithm::Danish,
+            Dutch => Algorithm::Dutch,
+            English => Algorithm::English,
+            Finnish => Algorithm::Finnish,
+            French => Algorithm::French,
+            German => Algorithm::German,
+            Hungarian => Algorithm::Hungarian,
+            Italian => Algorithm::Italian,
+            Portuguese => Algorithm::Portuguese,
+            Romanian => Algorithm::Romanian,
+            Russian => Algorithm::Russian,
+            Spanish => Algorithm::Spanish,
+            Swedish => Algorithm::Swedish,
+            Tamil => Algorithm::Tamil,
+            Turkish => Algorithm::Turkish
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// `Stemmer` token filter. Several languages are supported, see `Language` for the available
+/// languages.
+/// Tokens are expected to be lowercased beforehand.
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct Stemmer {
     stemmer_algorithm: Arc<Algorithm>,
 }
 
 impl Stemmer {
-    /// Creates a new Stemmer `TokenFilter`.
-    pub fn new() -> Stemmer {
+    /// Creates a new Stemmer `TokenFilter` for a given language algorithm.
+    pub fn new(language: Language) -> Stemmer {
         Stemmer {
-            stemmer_algorithm: Arc::new(Algorithm::English),
+            stemmer_algorithm: Arc::new(language.algorithm()),
         }
     }
 }
 
+impl Default for Stemmer {
+    /// Creates a new Stemmer `TokenFilter` for English.
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Stemmer::new(Language::English)
+    }
+}
+
 impl<TailTokenStream> TokenFilter<TailTokenStream> for Stemmer
 where
     TailTokenStream: TokenStream,
diff --git a/src/tokenizer/tokenizer.rs b/src/tokenizer/tokenizer.rs
index d73f84e93..46808d07e 100644
--- a/src/tokenizer/tokenizer.rs
+++ b/src/tokenizer/tokenizer.rs
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ pub trait Tokenizer<'a>: Sized + Clone {
     /// let en_stem = SimpleTokenizer
     ///     .filter(RemoveLongFilter::limit(40))
     ///     .filter(LowerCaser)
-    ///     .filter(Stemmer::new());
+    ///     .filter(Stemmer::default());
     /// # }
     /// ```
     ///
diff --git a/src/tokenizer/tokenizer_manager.rs b/src/tokenizer/tokenizer_manager.rs
index 001469f35..37115e976 100644
--- a/src/tokenizer/tokenizer_manager.rs
+++ b/src/tokenizer/tokenizer_manager.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use tokenizer::RemoveLongFilter;
 use tokenizer::SimpleTokenizer;
 use tokenizer::Stemmer;
 use tokenizer::Tokenizer;
+use tokenizer::stemmer::Language;
 
 /// The tokenizer manager serves as a store for
 /// all of the pre-configured tokenizer pipelines.
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ impl Default for TokenizerManager {
             SimpleTokenizer
                 .filter(RemoveLongFilter::limit(40))
                 .filter(LowerCaser)
-                .filter(Stemmer::new()),
+                .filter(Stemmer::new(Language::English)),
         );
         manager
     }