diff --git a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
index 39afa5ef4f272..9f59579533bee 100755
--- a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
+++ b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
@@ -525,6 +525,9 @@ def get_vocab_base(self) -> tuple[list[str], list[int], str]:
             else:
                 token: str = reverse_vocab[i]
                 if token in added_vocab:
+                    # We need to manually encode and decode the added tokens in case special characters
+                    # used for `\n` / `\t` have been manually added in the added tokens
+                    token = tokenizer.decode(tokenizer.encode(token))
                     if tokenizer.added_tokens_decoder[i].special or self.does_token_look_special(token):
                         toktypes.append(gguf.TokenType.CONTROL)
                     else:
@@ -571,6 +574,9 @@ def get_vocab_base_pre(self, tokenizer) -> str:
         if chkhsh == "8aeee3860c56296a157a1fe2fad249ec40aa59b1bb5709f4ade11c4e6fe652ed":
             # ref: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-7b
             res = "falcon"
+        if chkhsh == "9d032fcbd5501f4a38150912590928bfb36091efb5df11b8e2124b0390e3fb1e":
+            # ref: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Base
+            res = "falcon3"
         if chkhsh == "0876d13b50744004aa9aeae05e7b0647eac9d801b5ba4668afc01e709c15e19f":
             # ref: https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
             res = "bert-bge"
diff --git a/convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py b/convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py
index 28cd02e5a7f66..1819f2577a304 100755
--- a/convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py
+++ b/convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ class TOKENIZER_TYPE(IntEnum):
     {"name": "deepseek-llm",   "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-llm-7b-base", },
     {"name": "deepseek-coder", "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-base", },
     {"name": "falcon",         "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-7b", },
+    {"name": "falcon3",        "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Base", },
     {"name": "bert-bge",       "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.WPM, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5", },
     {"name": "bert-bge-large", "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-large-zh-v1.5", },
     {"name": "mpt",            "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/mosaicml/mpt-7b", },
diff --git a/src/llama.cpp b/src/llama.cpp
index 4d89c522257c5..9b37ae6ae8608 100644
--- a/src/llama.cpp
+++ b/src/llama.cpp
@@ -6226,6 +6226,11 @@ static void llm_load_vocab(
             } else if (
                     tokenizer_pre == "falcon") {
                 vocab.type_pre = LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_FALCON;
+            } else if (
+                    tokenizer_pre == "falcon3") {
+                vocab.type_pre = LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_LLAMA3;
+                vocab.tokenizer_ignore_merges = true;
+                vocab.tokenizer_add_bos = true;
             } else if (
                     tokenizer_pre == "mpt") {
                 vocab.type_pre = LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_MPT;
@@ -21594,6 +21599,15 @@ static int32_t llama_chat_apply_template_internal(
         if (add_ass) {
             ss << "<|assistant|>\n";
         }
+    } else if (tmpl == "falcon3" || (tmpl_contains("<|assistant|>") && tmpl_contains("<|user|>"))) {
+        // Falcon 3
+        for (auto message : chat) {
+            std::string role(message->role);
+            ss << "<|" << role << "|>\n" << message->content << "\n";
+        }
+        if (add_ass) {
+            ss << "<|assistant|>\n";
+        }
     } else if (tmpl == "zephyr" || tmpl_contains("<|user|>")) {
         // zephyr template
         for (auto message : chat) {