diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 745bc27a1..e3327eb02 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -15,3 +15,6 @@
 *.PDF	 diff=astextplain
 *.rtf	 diff=astextplain
 *.RTF	 diff=astextplain
+
+# Apply Python syntax highlighting to berry (.be) files
+* .be linguist-language=Python