diff --git a/corbo/widgets.py b/corbo/widgets.py
index 85ba234..dc541dd 100644
--- a/corbo/widgets.py
+++ b/corbo/widgets.py
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ class PickerWidgetMixin(object):
             attrs = {'readonly': ''}
 
         self.options = options
-        self.options['language'] = get_language().split('-')[0]
+        if get_language():
+            self.options['language'] = get_language().split('-')[0]
 
         # We're not doing localisation, get the Javascript date format provided by the user,
         # with a default, and convert it to a Python data format for later string parsing