diff --git a/cadasta/config/settings/languages.py b/cadasta/config/settings/languages.py
index b40ccf292..f00392ad6 100644
--- a/cadasta/config/settings/languages.py
+++ b/cadasta/config/settings/languages.py
@@ -2,77 +2,78 @@
 
 
 FORM_LANGS = {
-    'af': _('Afrikaans'),
-    'ar': _('Arabic'),
-    'az': _('Azerbaijani'),
-    'be': _('Belarusian'),
-    'bg': _('Bulgarian'),
-    'bn': _('Bengali'),
-    'br': _('Breton'),
-    'bs': _('Bosnian'),
-    'ca': _('Catalan'),
-    'cs': _('Czech'),
-    'cy': _('Welsh'),
-    'da': _('Danish'),
-    'de': _('German'),
-    'el': _('Greek'),
-    'en': _('English'),
-    'eo': _('Esperanto'),
-    'es': _('Spanish'),
-    'et': _('Estonian'),
-    'eu': _('Basque'),
-    'fa': _('Persian (Farsi)'),
-    'fi': _('Finnish'),
-    'fr': _('French'),
-    'fy': _('Western Frisian'),
-    'ga': _('Irish'),
-    'gd': _('Scottish Gaelic'),
-    'gl': _('Galician'),
-    'he': _('Hebrew'),
-    'hi': _('Hindi'),
-    'hr': _('Croatian'),
-    'hu': _('Hungarian'),
-    'ia': _('Interlingua'),
-    'id': _('Indonesian'),
-    'io': _('Ido'),
-    'is': _('Icelandic'),
-    'it': _('Italian'),
-    'ja': _('Japanese'),
-    'ka': _('Georgian'),
-    'kk': _('Kazakh'),
-    'km': _('Khmer'),
-    'kn': _('Kannada'),
-    'ko': _('Korean'),
-    'lb': _('Luxembourgish'),
-    'lt': _('Lithuanian'),
-    'lv': _('Latvian'),
-    'mk': _('Macedonian'),
-    'ml': _('Malayalam'),
-    'mn': _('Mongolian'),
-    'mr': _('Marathi'),
-    'my': _('Burmese'),
-    'nb': _('Norwegian (Bokmål)'),
-    'ne': _('Nepali'),
-    'nl': _('Dutch'),
-    'nn': _('Norwegian (Nynorsk)'),
-    'os': _('Ossetian'),
-    'pa': _('Eastern Punjabi'),
-    'pl': _('Polish'),
-    'pt': _('Portuguese'),
-    'ro': _('Romanian'),
-    'ru': _('Russian'),
-    'sk': _('Slovak'),
-    'sl': _('Slovene'),
-    'sq': _('Albanian'),
-    'sr': _('Serbian'),
-    'sv': _('Swedish'),
-    'sw': _('Swahili'),
-    'ta': _('Tamil'),
-    'te': _('Telugu'),
-    'th': _('Thai'),
-    'tr': _('Turkish'),
-    'tt': _('Tatar'),
-    'uk': _('Ukrainian'),
-    'ur': _('Urdu'),
-    'vi': _('Vietnamese')
+    'af': _("Afrikaans"),
+    'ar': _("Arabic"),
+    'az': _("Azerbaijani"),
+    'be': _("Belarusian"),
+    'bg': _("Bulgarian"),
+    'bn': _("Bengali"),
+    'br': _("Breton"),
+    'bs': _("Bosnian"),
+    'ca': _("Catalan"),
+    'cs': _("Czech"),
+    'cy': _("Welsh"),
+    'da': _("Danish"),
+    'de': _("German"),
+    'el': _("Greek"),
+    'en': _("English"),
+    'eo': _("Esperanto"),
+    'es': _("Spanish"),
+    'et': _("Estonian"),
+    'eu': _("Basque"),
+    'fa': _("Persian (Farsi)"),
+    'fi': _("Finnish"),
+    'fr': _("French"),
+    'fy': _("Western Frisian"),
+    'ga': _("Irish"),
+    'gd': _("Scottish Gaelic"),
+    'gl': _("Galician"),
+    'he': _("Hebrew"),
+    'hi': _("Hindi"),
+    'hr': _("Croatian"),
+    'hu': _("Hungarian"),
+    'ia': _("Interlingua"),
+    'id': _("Indonesian"),
+    'io': _("Ido"),
+    'is': _("Icelandic"),
+    'it': _("Italian"),
+    'ja': _("Japanese"),
+    'ka': _("Georgian"),
+    'kk': _("Kazakh"),
+    'km': _("Khmer"),
+    'kn': _("Kannada"),
+    'ko': _("Korean"),
+    'lb': _("Luxembourgish"),
+    'lt': _("Lithuanian"),
+    'lv': _("Latvian"),
+    'mk': _("Macedonian"),
+    'ml': _("Malayalam"),
+    'mn': _("Mongolian"),
+    'mr': _("Marathi"),
+    'my': _("Burmese"),
+    'nb': _("Norwegian (Bokmål)"),
+    'ne': _("Nepali"),
+    'nl': _("Dutch"),
+    'nn': _("Norwegian (Nynorsk)"),
+    'os': _("Ossetian"),
+    'pa': _("Eastern Punjabi"),
+    'pl': _("Polish"),
+    'pt': _("Portuguese"),
+    'ro': _("Romanian"),
+    'ru': _("Russian"),
+    'sk': _("Slovak"),
+    'sl': _("Slovene"),
+    'sq': _("Albanian"),
+    'sr': _("Serbian"),
+    'sv': _("Swedish"),
+    'sw': _("Swahili"),
+    'ta': _("Tamil"),
+    'te': _("Telugu"),
+    'th': _("Thai"),
+    'tr': _("Turkish"),
+    'tt': _("Tatar"),
+    'uk': _("Ukrainian"),
+    'ur': _("Urdu"),
+    'vi': _("Vietnamese"),
+    'kar': _("S'gaw Karen")
 }
diff --git a/cadasta/questionnaires/managers.py b/cadasta/questionnaires/managers.py
index fcb05a3a5..bccaa8ba9 100644
--- a/cadasta/questionnaires/managers.py
+++ b/cadasta/questionnaires/managers.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
 from django.db import models, transaction
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
-from django.utils.translation import get_language_info
 from jsonattrs.models import Attribute, AttributeType, Schema
 from pyxform.builder import create_survey_element_from_dict
 from pyxform.errors import PyXFormError
@@ -130,15 +129,8 @@ def create_attrs_schema(project=None, dict=None, content_type=None,
         )
 
 
-# Python's builtin check_for_language does weird transformations of
-# locale names...
-
 def check_for_language(lang):
-    try:
-        get_language_info(lang)
-        return True
-    except:
-        return False
+    return lang in settings.FORM_LANGS.keys()
 
 
 def multilingual_label_check(children):
@@ -167,7 +159,7 @@ def fix_languages(node):
     if (isinstance(node, Element) and
        node.tagName == 'translation' and node.hasAttribute('lang')):
         iso_lang = node.getAttribute('lang')
-        local_lang = get_language_info(iso_lang)['name_local']
+        local_lang = settings.FORM_LANGS.get(iso_lang)
         node.setAttribute('lang', local_lang)
     else:
         for child in node.childNodes: