diff --git a/src/languages/perl.js b/src/languages/perl.js
index 7ffc6a02c1..4d53c2350a 100644
--- a/src/languages/perl.js
+++ b/src/languages/perl.js
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ export default function(hljs) {
     'chown',
     'chr',
     'chroot',
+    'class',
     'close',
     'closedir',
     'connect',
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ export default function(hljs) {
     'exit',
     'exp',
     'fcntl',
+    'field',
     'fileno',
     'flock',
     'for',
@@ -114,6 +116,7 @@ export default function(hljs) {
     'lt',
     'ma',
     'map',
+    'method',
     'mkdir',
     'msgctl',
     'msgget',
@@ -258,19 +261,28 @@ export default function(hljs) {
     end: /\}/
     // contains defined later
   };
-  const VAR = { variants: [
-    { begin: /\$\d/ },
-    { begin: regex.concat(
-      /[$%@](\^\w\b|#\w+(::\w+)*|\{\w+\}|\w+(::\w*)*)/,
-      // negative look-ahead tries to avoid matching patterns that are not
-      // Perl at all like $ident$, @ident@, etc.
-      `(?![A-Za-z])(?![@$%])`
-    ) },
-    {
-      begin: /[$%@][^\s\w{]/,
-      relevance: 0
-    }
-  ] };
+  const ATTRS = {
+    className: 'attribute',
+    begin: /\s+:\s*\w+/,
+    end: /(\\s*\\(.*?\\))?/,
+  };
+  const VAR = {
+    variants: [
+      { begin: /\$\d/ },
+      { begin: regex.concat(
+        /[$%@](\^\w\b|#\w+(::\w+)*|\{\w+\}|\w+(::\w*)*)/,
+        // negative look-ahead tries to avoid matching patterns that are not
+        // Perl at all like $ident$, @ident@, etc.
+        `(?![A-Za-z])(?![@$%])`
+        )
+      },
+      {
+        begin: /[$%@][^\s\w{]/,
+        relevance: 0
+      }
+    ],
+    contains: [ ATTRS ],
+  };
   const NUMBER = {
     className: 'number',
     variants: [
@@ -443,11 +455,19 @@ export default function(hljs) {
     },
     {
       className: 'function',
-      beginKeywords: 'sub',
+      beginKeywords: 'sub method',
       end: '(\\s*\\(.*?\\))?[;{]',
       excludeEnd: true,
       relevance: 5,
-      contains: [ hljs.TITLE_MODE ]
+      contains: [ hljs.TITLE_MODE, ATTRS ]
+    },
+    {
+      className: 'class',
+      beginKeywords: 'class',
+      end: '[;{]',
+      excludeEnd: true,
+      relevance: 5,
+      contains: [ hljs.TITLE_MODE, ATTRS, NUMBER ]
     },
     {
       begin: '-\\w\\b',
diff --git a/test/markup/perl/class.expect.txt b/test/markup/perl/class.expect.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..94524ea8bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/markup/perl/class.expect.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<span class="hljs-keyword">use</span> <span class="hljs-number">v5.38</span>;
+
+<span class="hljs-keyword">use</span> Object::Pad;
+
+<span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">Example</span>::<span class="hljs-title">Subclass</span><span class="hljs-attribute"> :isa</span>(<span class="hljs-title">Example</span>::<span class="hljs-title">Base</span> <span class="hljs-number">2.345</span>) </span>{
+    <span class="hljs-keyword">field</span> $_config<span class="hljs-attribute"> :param</span><span class="hljs-attribute"> :reader</span><span class="hljs-attribute"> :writer</span>;
+    <span class="hljs-keyword">field</span> $_name<span class="hljs-attribute"> : param</span> = <span class="hljs-string">&#x27;Test&#x27;</span>;
+
+    <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">method</span> <span class="hljs-title">test</span>() </span>{
+        $_name == <span class="hljs-string">&#x27;Test&#x27;</span> ? <span class="hljs-string">&#x27;y&#x27;</span> : <span class="hljs-string">&#x27;n&#x27;</span>;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/test/markup/perl/class.txt b/test/markup/perl/class.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e548863535
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/markup/perl/class.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+use v5.38;
+
+use Object::Pad;
+
+class Example::Subclass :isa(Example::Base 2.345) {
+    field $_config :param :reader :writer;
+    field $_name : param = 'Test';
+
+    method test() {
+        $_name == 'Test' ? 'y' : 'n';
+    }
+}