From 6147dfe59ab9ba5d2aef39c828790e110c36bda8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: silicons <2003111+silicons@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 09:55:35 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] language bugfixes (#6879)

---
 code/modules/language/language.dm          | 2 +-
 code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/code/modules/language/language.dm b/code/modules/language/language.dm
index 33114dffba57..be809af403a0 100644
--- a/code/modules/language/language.dm
+++ b/code/modules/language/language.dm
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@
 // Language handling.
 /mob/proc/add_language(var/language)
 
-	var/datum/prototype/language/new_language = RSlanguages.fetch(language)
+	var/datum/prototype/language/new_language = RSlanguages.fetch(language) || RSlanguages.legacy_resolve_language_name(language)
 
 	if(!istype(new_language) || (new_language in languages))
 		return 0
diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm
index 8de8e71575da..4ec7fc042cc4 100644
--- a/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm
+++ b/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 	silicon_mob_list |= src
 	. = ..()
 	add_language(LANGUAGE_GALCOM)
-	set_default_language(RSlanguages.legacy_resolve_language_name(LANGUAGE_GALCOM))
+	set_default_language(RSlanguages.fetch(/datum/prototype/language/common))
 	create_translation_context()
 	init_id()
 	init_subsystems()