diff --git a/data/template/prepare.py b/data/template/prepare.py
index e4b5e10155..e6946107b2 100644
--- a/data/template/prepare.py
+++ b/data/template/prepare.py
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ def parse_arguments():
 
     # Additional options
     parser.add_argument("-T", "--track_token_counts", action="store_true", help="Track how often each token appears and store in meta.pkl")
+    parser.add_argument("-E", "--extract-vocab", action="store_true", help="Export the tokenizer vocabulary to a JSON file")
 
     return parser.parse_args()
 
@@ -152,6 +153,20 @@ def main():
     if val_ids is not None:
         save_tokens(val_ids, args.val_output, dtype)
 
+    if args.extract_vocab:
+        if not hasattr(tokenizer, "get_vocabulary"):
+            raise ValueError(f"Vocabulary extraction is not supported for tokenizer method '{args.method}'.")
+
+        vocab = tokenizer.get_vocabulary()
+        # Ensure string representations for all tokens
+        vocab_strings = [token if isinstance(token, str) else str(token) for token in vocab]
+        vocab_strings.sort(key=lambda token: (-len(token), token))
+
+        vocab_filename = f"{args.method}_vocab.json"
+        with open(vocab_filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+            json.dump(vocab_strings, f, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
+        print(f"Saved vocabulary to {vocab_filename}")
+
     if args.method == "sinewave":
         meta = {
             "tokenizer": "sinewave",
diff --git a/data/template/tokenizers.py b/data/template/tokenizers.py
index d80ad10e70..d7b629d091 100644
--- a/data/template/tokenizers.py
+++ b/data/template/tokenizers.py
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ def finalize_meta(self, meta):
             meta["token_counts"] = dict(self.token_counts)
         self.save_meta(meta)
 
+    def get_vocabulary(self):
+        """Return the list of string representations that make up the tokenizer's vocabulary."""
+        raise NotImplementedError("Vocabulary extraction is not implemented for this tokenizer.")
+
     @staticmethod
     def get_key_from_meta(keyname):
         meta_path = 'meta.pkl'
@@ -117,6 +121,11 @@ def detokenize(self, ids):
             raise ValueError("SentencePiece model is not loaded.")
         return self.sp.decode_ids(ids)
 
+    def get_vocabulary(self):
+        if not self.sp:
+            raise ValueError("SentencePiece model is not loaded.")
+        return [self.sp.id_to_piece(i) for i in range(self.sp.GetPieceSize())]
+
 class TiktokenTokenizer(Tokenizer):
     def __init__(self, args):
         super().__init__(args)
@@ -218,6 +227,29 @@ def detokenize(self, token_ids):
 
         return ''.join(result)
 
+    def get_vocabulary(self):
+        vocab = []
+        seen = set()
+        for token_id in range(self.enc.n_vocab):
+            token_bytes = self.enc.decode_single_token_bytes(token_id)
+            token_str = token_bytes.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
+            if token_str not in seen:
+                seen.add(token_str)
+                vocab.append(token_str)
+
+        # Include known special tokens (base and additional)
+        special_tokens = {}
+        if hasattr(self.enc, "_special_tokens") and isinstance(self.enc._special_tokens, dict):
+            special_tokens.update(self.enc._special_tokens)
+        special_tokens.update(self.special_tokens)
+
+        for token in special_tokens.keys():
+            if token not in seen:
+                seen.add(token)
+                vocab.append(token)
+
+        return vocab
+
 
 class CustomTokenizer(Tokenizer):
     def __init__(self, args):
@@ -261,6 +293,9 @@ def tokenize(self, data):
     def detokenize(self, ids):
         return ''.join([self.itos[id] for id in ids])
 
+    def get_vocabulary(self):
+        return list(self.tokens)
+
 class ByteTokenizer(Tokenizer):
     def __init__(self, args):
         super().__init__(args)
@@ -281,6 +316,9 @@ def tokenize(self, data):
     def detokenize(self, ids):
         return bytes(ids).decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
 
+    def get_vocabulary(self):
+        return [chr(i) for i in range(256)]
+
 
 class CharTokenizer(Tokenizer):
     def __init__(self, args, train_data, val_data):
@@ -315,6 +353,9 @@ def tokenize(self, data):
     def detokenize(self, ids):
         return ''.join([self.itos[id] for id in ids])
 
+    def get_vocabulary(self):
+        return list(self.chars)
+
 class CustomCharTokenizerWithByteFallback(Tokenizer):
     """
     In this version, we assign IDs 0..255 to raw bytes,
@@ -445,6 +486,15 @@ def detokenize(self, ids):
 
         return ''.join(out_pieces)
 
+    def get_vocabulary(self):
+        vocab = []
+        for token in self.itos.values():
+            if isinstance(token, bytes):
+                vocab.append(token.decode('utf-8', errors='replace'))
+            else:
+                vocab.append(token)
+        return vocab
+
 class JsonByteTokenizerWithByteFallback(Tokenizer):
     """
     Similar to CustomCharTokenizerWithByteFallback, but loads tokens from a JSON array.
@@ -577,6 +627,15 @@ def detokenize(self, ids):
 
         return ''.join(out_pieces)
 
+    def get_vocabulary(self):
+        vocab = []
+        for token in self.itos.values():
+            if isinstance(token, bytes):
+                vocab.append(token.decode('utf-8', errors='replace'))
+            else:
+                vocab.append(token)
+        return vocab
+
 
 class SineWaveTokenizer:
     """Generate a deterministic sequence of sine wave samples."""