diff --git a/src/components/compose/Compose.tsx b/src/components/compose/Compose.tsx
index 7c0ed1eb..f306a278 100644
--- a/src/components/compose/Compose.tsx
+++ b/src/components/compose/Compose.tsx
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ const Compose: React.FC<Props> = props => {
   const [fromAccount, setFromAccount] = useState<[Account, Server]>()
   const [defaultVisibility, setDefaultVisibility] = useState<'public' | 'unlisted' | 'private' | 'direct'>('public')
   const [defaultNSFW, setDefaultNSFW] = useState(false)
+  const [defaultLanguage, setDefaultLanguage] = useState<string | null>(null)
   const [client, setClient] = useState<MegalodonInterface>()
 
   useEffect(() => {
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ const Compose: React.FC<Props> = props => {
       const res = await client.verifyAccountCredentials()
       setDefaultVisibility(res.data.source.privacy as 'public' | 'unlisted' | 'private' | 'direct')
       setDefaultNSFW(res.data.source.sensitive)
+      setDefaultLanguage(res.data.source.language)
     }
     f()
   }, [fromAccount])
@@ -118,6 +120,7 @@ const Compose: React.FC<Props> = props => {
             account={fromAccount[0]}
             defaultVisibility={defaultVisibility}
             defaultNSFW={defaultNSFW}
+            defaultLanguage={defaultLanguage}
           />
         )}
       </Content>
diff --git a/src/components/compose/Status.tsx b/src/components/compose/Status.tsx
index 07f3f4a9..c27eac94 100644
--- a/src/components/compose/Status.tsx
+++ b/src/components/compose/Status.tsx
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ import {
   FlexboxGrid,
   Radio,
   InputPicker,
-  FormControlProps
+  FormControlProps,
+  SelectPicker
 } from 'rsuite'
 import { useState, useEffect, useRef, forwardRef, ChangeEvent } from 'react'
 import { Icon } from '@rsuite/icons'
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ import alert from 'src/components/utils/alert'
 import { Account } from 'src/entities/account'
 import { useTranslation } from 'react-i18next'
 import AutoCompleteTextarea, { ArgProps as AutoCompleteTextareaProps } from './AutoCompleteTextarea'
+import languages from 'src/utils/languages'
 
 type Props = {
   server: Server
@@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ type Props = {
   edit_target?: Entity.Status
   defaultVisibility?: 'public' | 'unlisted' | 'private' | 'direct'
   defaultNSFW?: boolean
+  defaultLanguage?: string | null
   onClose?: () => void
 }
 
@@ -77,6 +80,7 @@ const Status: React.FC<Props> = props => {
   const [loading, setLoading] = useState<boolean>(false)
   const [visibility, setVisibility] = useState<'public' | 'unlisted' | 'private' | 'direct'>('public')
   const [cw, setCW] = useState<boolean>(false)
+  const [language, setLanguage] = useState<string>('en')
 
   const formRef = useRef<any>()
   const statusRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>()
@@ -120,6 +124,9 @@ const Status: React.FC<Props> = props => {
         .filter(a => a !== props.account.username)
       setFormValue({ spoiler: '', status: `${mentionAccounts.map(m => `@${m}`).join(' ')} ` })
       setVisibility(props.in_reply_to.visibility)
+      if (props.in_reply_to.language) {
+        setLanguage(props.in_reply_to.language)
+      }
     }
   }, [props.in_reply_to, props.account])
 
@@ -148,6 +155,9 @@ const Status: React.FC<Props> = props => {
         }
         setFormValue(value)
         setVisibility(target.visibility)
+        if (target.language) {
+          setLanguage(target.language)
+        }
       }
       f()
     }
@@ -169,6 +179,12 @@ const Status: React.FC<Props> = props => {
     }
   }, [props.defaultNSFW])
 
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (props.defaultLanguage) {
+      setLanguage(props.defaultLanguage)
+    }
+  }, [props.defaultLanguage])
+
   const handleSubmit = async () => {
     if (loading) {
       return
@@ -197,6 +213,11 @@ const Status: React.FC<Props> = props => {
             sensitive: formValue.nsfw
           })
         }
+        if (language) {
+          options = Object.assign({}, options, {
+            language: language
+          })
+        }
         if (formValue.spoiler.length > 0) {
           options = Object.assign({}, options, {
             spoiler_text: formValue.spoiler
@@ -351,6 +372,25 @@ const Status: React.FC<Props> = props => {
     )
   }
 
+  const LanguageDropdown = ({ onClose, left, top, className }, ref: any) => {
+    const handleSelect = (key: string) => {
+      setLanguage(key)
+      onClose()
+    }
+
+    return (
+      <Popover ref={ref} className={className} style={{ left, top }} full>
+        <Dropdown.Menu onSelect={handleSelect} style={{ maxHeight: '300px', overflowX: 'scroll' }}>
+          {languages.map((l, index) => (
+            <Dropdown.Item key={index} eventKey={l.value}>
+              {l.label}
+            </Dropdown.Item>
+          ))}
+        </Dropdown.Menu>
+      </Popover>
+    )
+  }
+
   const targetId = () => {
     if (props.in_reply_to) {
       return `emoji-picker-reply-${props.in_reply_to.id}`
@@ -414,6 +454,11 @@ const Status: React.FC<Props> = props => {
           <Button appearance="subtle" onClick={() => setCW(previous => !previous)}>
             <span style={{ fontSize: '0.8em' }}>CW</span>
           </Button>
+          <Whisper placement="bottomEnd" delay={100} trigger="click" speaker={LanguageDropdown} preventOverflow>
+            <Button appearance="subtle">
+              <span style={{ fontSize: '0.8em' }}>{language.toUpperCase()}</span>
+            </Button>
+          </Whisper>
         </ButtonToolbar>
       </Form.Group>
       {formValue.attachments?.length > 0 && (
diff --git a/src/utils/languages.json b/src/utils/languages.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..af30f5b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/languages.json
@@ -0,0 +1,184 @@
+[
+  {"label":"Afar","value":"aa"},
+  {"label":"Abkhaz","value":"ab"},
+  {"label":"Avestan","value":"ae"},
+  {"label":"Afrikaans","value":"af"},
+  {"label":"Akan","value":"ak"},
+  {"label":"Amharic","value":"am"},
+  {"label":"Aragonese","value":"an"},
+  {"label":"Arabic","value":"ar"},
+  {"label":"Assamese","value":"as"},
+  {"label":"Avaric","value":"av"},
+  {"label":"Aymara","value":"ay"},
+  {"label":"Azerbaijani","value":"az"},
+  {"label":"Bashkir","value":"ba"},
+  {"label":"Belarusian","value":"be"},
+  {"label":"Bulgarian","value":"bg"},
+  {"label":"Bihari","value":"bh"},
+  {"label":"Bislama","value":"bi"},
+  {"label":"Bambara","value":"bm"},
+  {"label":"Bengali","value":"bn"},
+  {"label":"Tibetan","value":"bo"},
+  {"label":"Breton","value":"br"},
+  {"label":"Bosnian","value":"bs"},
+  {"label":"Catalan","value":"ca"},
+  {"label":"Chechen","value":"ce"},
+  {"label":"Chamorro","value":"ch"},
+  {"label":"Corsican","value":"co"},
+  {"label":"Cree","value":"cr"},
+  {"label":"Czech","value":"cs"},
+  {"label":"Old Church Slavonic","value":"cu"},
+  {"label":"Chuvash","value":"cv"},
+  {"label":"Welsh","value":"cy"},
+  {"label":"Danish","value":"da"},
+  {"label":"German","value":"de"},
+  {"label":"Divehi","value":"dv"},
+  {"label":"Dzongkha","value":"dz"},
+  {"label":"Ewe","value":"ee"},
+  {"label":"Greek","value":"el"},
+  {"label":"English","value":"en"},
+  {"label":"Esperanto","value":"eo"},
+  {"label":"Spanish","value":"es"},
+  {"label":"Estonian","value":"et"},
+  {"label":"Basque","value":"eu"},
+  {"label":"Persian","value":"fa"},
+  {"label":"Fula","value":"ff"},
+  {"label":"Finnish","value":"fi"},
+  {"label":"Fijian","value":"fj"},
+  {"label":"Faroese","value":"fo"},
+  {"label":"French","value":"fr"},
+  {"label":"Western Frisian","value":"fy"},
+  {"label":"Irish","value":"ga"},
+  {"label":"Scottish Gaelic","value":"gd"},
+  {"label":"Galician","value":"gl"},
+  {"label":"Gujarati","value":"gu"},
+  {"label":"Manx","value":"gv"},
+  {"label":"Hausa","value":"ha"},
+  {"label":"Hebrew","value":"he"},
+  {"label":"Hindi","value":"hi"},
+  {"label":"Hiri Motu","value":"ho"},
+  {"label":"Croatian","value":"hr"},
+  {"label":"Haitian","value":"ht"},
+  {"label":"Hungarian","value":"hu"},
+  {"label":"Armenian","value":"hy"},
+  {"label":"Herero","value":"hz"},
+  {"label":"Interlingua","value":"ia"},
+  {"label":"Indonesian","value":"id"},
+  {"label":"Interlingue","value":"ie"},
+  {"label":"Igbo","value":"ig"},
+  {"label":"Nuosu","value":"ii"},
+  {"label":"Inupiaq","value":"ik"},
+  {"label":"Ido","value":"io"},
+  {"label":"Icelandic","value":"is"},
+  {"label":"Italian","value":"it"},
+  {"label":"Inuktitut","value":"iu"},
+  {"label":"Japanese","value":"ja"},
+  {"label":"Javanese","value":"jv"},
+  {"label":"Georgian","value":"ka"},
+  {"label":"Kongo","value":"kg"},
+  {"label":"Kikuyu","value":"ki"},
+  {"label":"Kwanyama","value":"kj"},
+  {"label":"Kazakh","value":"kk"},
+  {"label":"Kalaallisut","value":"kl"},
+  {"label":"Khmer","value":"km"},
+  {"label":"Kannada","value":"kn"},
+  {"label":"Korean","value":"ko"},
+  {"label":"Kanuri","value":"kr"},
+  {"label":"Kashmiri","value":"ks"},
+  {"label":"Kurmanji (Kurdish)","value":"ku"},
+  {"label":"Komi","value":"kv"},
+  {"label":"Cornish","value":"kw"},
+  {"label":"Kyrgyz","value":"ky"},
+  {"label":"Latin","value":"la"},
+  {"label":"Luxembourgish","value":"lb"},
+  {"label":"Ganda","value":"lg"},
+  {"label":"Limburgish","value":"li"},
+  {"label":"Lingala","value":"ln"},
+  {"label":"Lao","value":"lo"},
+  {"label":"Lithuanian","value":"lt"},
+  {"label":"Luba-Katanga","value":"lu"},
+  {"label":"Latvian","value":"lv"},
+  {"label":"Malagasy","value":"mg"},
+  {"label":"Marshallese","value":"mh"},
+  {"label":"Māori","value":"mi"},
+  {"label":"Macedonian","value":"mk"},
+  {"label":"Malayalam","value":"ml"},
+  {"label":"Mongolian","value":"mn"},
+  {"label":"Marathi","value":"mr"},
+  {"label":"Malay","value":"ms"},
+  {"label":"Maltese","value":"mt"},
+  {"label":"Burmese","value":"my"},
+  {"label":"Nauru","value":"na"},
+  {"label":"Norwegian Bokmål","value":"nb"},
+  {"label":"Northern Ndebele","value":"nd"},
+  {"label":"Nepali","value":"ne"},
+  {"label":"Ndonga","value":"ng"},
+  {"label":"Dutch","value":"nl"},
+  {"label":"Norwegian Nynorsk","value":"nn"},
+  {"label":"Norwegian","value":"no"},
+  {"label":"Southern Ndebele","value":"nr"},
+  {"label":"Navajo","value":"nv"},
+  {"label":"Chichewa","value":"ny"},
+  {"label":"Occitan","value":"oc"},
+  {"label":"Ojibwe","value":"oj"},
+  {"label":"Oromo","value":"om"},
+  {"label":"Oriya","value":"or"},
+  {"label":"Ossetian","value":"os"},
+  {"label":"Panjabi","value":"pa"},
+  {"label":"Pāli","value":"pi"},
+  {"label":"Polish","value":"pl"},
+  {"label":"Pashto","value":"ps"},
+  {"label":"Portuguese","value":"pt"},
+  {"label":"Quechua","value":"qu"},
+  {"label":"Romansh","value":"rm"},
+  {"label":"Kirundi","value":"rn"},
+  {"label":"Romanian","value":"ro"},
+  {"label":"Russian","value":"ru"},
+  {"label":"Kinyarwanda","value":"rw"},
+  {"label":"Sanskrit","value":"sa"},
+  {"label":"Sardinian","value":"sc"},
+  {"label":"Sindhi","value":"sd"},
+  {"label":"Northern Sami","value":"se"},
+  {"label":"Sango","value":"sg"},
+  {"label":"Sinhala","value":"si"},
+  {"label":"Slovak","value":"sk"},
+  {"label":"Slovenian","value":"sl"},
+  {"label":"Shona","value":"sn"},
+  {"label":"Somali","value":"so"},
+  {"label":"Albanian","value":"sq"},
+  {"label":"Serbian","value":"sr"},
+  {"label":"Swati","value":"ss"},
+  {"label":"Southern Sotho","value":"st"},
+  {"label":"Sundanese","value":"su"},
+  {"label":"Swedish","value":"sv"},
+  {"label":"Swahili","value":"sw"},
+  {"label":"Tamil","value":"ta"},
+  {"label":"Telugu","value":"te"},
+  {"label":"Tajik","value":"tg"},
+  {"label":"Thai","value":"th"},
+  {"label":"Tigrinya","value":"ti"},
+  {"label":"Turkmen","value":"tk"},
+  {"label":"Tagalog","value":"tl"},
+  {"label":"Tswana","value":"tn"},
+  {"label":"Tonga","value":"to"},
+  {"label":"Turkish","value":"tr"},
+  {"label":"Tsonga","value":"ts"},
+  {"label":"Tatar","value":"tt"},
+  {"label":"Twi","value":"tw"},
+  {"label":"Tahitian","value":"ty"},
+  {"label":"Uyghur","value":"ug"},
+  {"label":"Ukrainian","value":"uk"},
+  {"label":"Urdu","value":"ur"},
+  {"label":"Uzbek","value":"uz"},
+  {"label":"Venda","value":"ve"},
+  {"label":"Vietnamese","value":"vi"},
+  {"label":"Volapük","value":"vo"},
+  {"label":"Walloon","value":"wa"},
+  {"label":"Wolof","value":"wo"},
+  {"label":"Xhosa","value":"xh"},
+  {"label":"Yiddish","value":"yi"},
+  {"label":"Yoruba","value":"yo"},
+  {"label":"Zhuang","value":"za"},
+  {"label":"Chinese","value":"zh"},
+  {"label":"Zulu","value":"zu"}
+]
diff --git a/src/utils/languages.ts b/src/utils/languages.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ca88347f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/languages.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import languages from './languages.json'
+
+type Language = {
+  label: string
+  value: string
+}
+
+export default languages as Array<Language>