diff --git a/songbook_core/data/templates/default.tex b/songbook_core/data/templates/default.tex
index bb016c54..73d9399e 100644
--- a/songbook_core/data/templates/default.tex
+++ b/songbook_core/data/templates/default.tex
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 %%:  {"name":"indexbgcolor", "description":"Index Shade", "type":"color", "default":"D1E4AE"},
 %%:  {"name":"titleprefixwords", "description":"Ignore some words in the beginning of song titles"},
 %%:  {"name":"authwords", "descriptipn":"Set of options to process author string (LaTeX commands authsepword, authignoreword, authbyword)"},
-%%:  {"name":"languages", "description":"List of languages used by songs", "default":""}
+%%:  {"name":"languages", "description":"List of languages used by songs", "default":"english"}
 %%:]
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