diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9517d77..513d103 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dynamic = ["version"]
 description = "WordLlama NLP Utility"
 readme = { file = "README.md", content-type = "text/markdown" }
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }
-requires-python = ">=3.9"
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
 authors = [{ name = "Lee Miller", email = "dleemiller@gmail.com" }]
 dependencies = [
   "numpy>=2",