diff --git a/expose.h b/expose.h
index 67d12707f..3d1da4fd0 100644
--- a/expose.h
+++ b/expose.h
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ struct tts_generation_inputs
     const char * custom_speaker_data = "";
     const char * reference_audio = "";
     const char * speaker_instruction = "";
+    const char * language = "";
     const bool use_mp3 = false;
 };
 struct tts_generation_outputs
diff --git a/koboldcpp.py b/koboldcpp.py
index c8c70d63a..05fcd6001 100644
--- a/koboldcpp.py
+++ b/koboldcpp.py
@@ -505,6 +505,7 @@ class tts_generation_inputs(ctypes.Structure):
                 ("custom_speaker_data", ctypes.c_char_p),
                 ("reference_audio", ctypes.c_char_p),
                 ("speaker_instruction", ctypes.c_char_p),
+                ("language", ctypes.c_char_p),
                 ("use_mp3", ctypes.c_bool)]
 
 class tts_generation_outputs(ctypes.Structure):
@@ -3068,10 +3069,12 @@ def tts_generate(genparams):
     inputs = tts_generation_inputs()
     inputs.custom_speaker_voice = normalized_voice.encode("UTF-8")
     ttsinstruction = genparams.get("instruction", "")
+    ttslang = genparams.get("language", "en")
     # if no instruction provided, extract from text
     if not genparams.get("instruction", ""):
         prompt, ttsinstruction = tts_extract_instruction(prompt)
     inputs.speaker_instruction = ttsinstruction.encode("UTF-8")
+    inputs.language = ttslang.encode("UTF-8")
     response_format_mp3 = True if (genparams.get("response_format")=="mp3") else False
     inputs.use_mp3 = genparams.get("use_mp3", response_format_mp3)
     inputs.prompt = prompt.encode("UTF-8")
diff --git a/otherarch/qwen3tts/qwen3_tts.cpp b/otherarch/qwen3tts/qwen3_tts.cpp
index c3c92a155..86174b9a6 100644
--- a/otherarch/qwen3tts/qwen3_tts.cpp
+++ b/otherarch/qwen3tts/qwen3_tts.cpp
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 #include <cstdio>
 #include <cstring>
+#include <cctype>
 #include <chrono>
 #include <cmath>
 #include <fstream>
@@ -73,6 +74,46 @@ void Qwen3TTS::set_seed(int seed)
    this->transformer_.set_seed(seed);
 }
 
+static int q3ttslang = 2050;
+void Qwen3TTS::set_language(std::string lang)
+{
+    q3ttslang = 2050; //fallback to english
+
+    for (char & c : lang) {
+        c = (char)std::tolower((unsigned char)c);
+    }
+
+    const size_t region_pos = lang.find_first_of("-_");
+    if (region_pos != std::string::npos) {
+        lang.resize(region_pos);
+    }
+
+    struct lang_code {
+        const char * name;
+        int code;
+    };
+
+    static const lang_code codes[] = {
+        {"en", 2050}, {"eng", 2050}, {"english", 2050},
+        {"zh", 2055}, {"zho", 2055}, {"chi", 2055}, {"chinese", 2055}, {"mandarin", 2055},
+        {"de", 2053}, {"deu", 2053}, {"ger", 2053}, {"german", 2053},
+        {"es", 2054}, {"spa", 2054}, {"spanish", 2054},
+        {"ja", 2058}, {"jpn", 2058}, {"japanese", 2058},
+        {"fr", 2061}, {"fra", 2061}, {"fre", 2061}, {"french", 2061},
+        {"ko", 2064}, {"kor", 2064}, {"korean", 2064},
+        {"ru", 2069}, {"rus", 2069}, {"russian", 2069},
+        {"it", 2070}, {"ita", 2070}, {"italian", 2070},
+        {"pt", 2071}, {"por", 2071}, {"portuguese", 2071},
+    };
+
+    for (const lang_code & entry : codes) {
+        if (lang == entry.name) {
+            q3ttslang = entry.code;
+            return;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 bool Qwen3TTS::load_models(const std::string & model_dir) {
     // Construct model paths
     std::string tts_model_path = model_dir + "/qwen3-tts-0.6b-f16.gguf";
@@ -343,7 +384,7 @@ tts_result Qwen3TTS::synthesize_internal(const std::string & text, const std::st
     std::vector<int32_t> speech_codes;
     if (!transformer_.generate(text_tokens.data(), (int32_t)text_tokens.size(),
                                speaker_embedding, params.max_audio_tokens, speech_codes,
-                               2050, params.repetition_penalty,
+                               q3ttslang, params.repetition_penalty,
                                params.temperature, params.top_k, speakerid, instruct_tok_data, instruct_tok_count)) {
         result.error_msg = "Failed to generate speech codes: " + transformer_.get_error();
         return result;
diff --git a/otherarch/qwen3tts/qwen3_tts.h b/otherarch/qwen3tts/qwen3_tts.h
index f8b535ed0..0f68843ec 100644
--- a/otherarch/qwen3tts/qwen3_tts.h
+++ b/otherarch/qwen3tts/qwen3_tts.h
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ public:
     ~Qwen3TTS();
 
     void set_seed(int seed);
+    void set_language(std::string lang);
 
     // Load all models from directory
     // model_dir should contain: transformer.gguf, tokenizer.gguf, vocoder.gguf
diff --git a/otherarch/tts_adapter.cpp b/otherarch/tts_adapter.cpp
index cf61b2241..00d701995 100644
--- a/otherarch/tts_adapter.cpp
+++ b/otherarch/tts_adapter.cpp
@@ -1178,6 +1178,7 @@ static tts_generation_outputs ttstype_generate_qwen3tts(const tts_generation_inp
         std::string custom_reference_audio_str = inputs.reference_audio;
         std::vector<float> custom_reference_audio_pcmf32;
         std::string speaker_instruction = inputs.speaker_instruction;
+        std::string ttslanguage = inputs.language;
 
         int speakerID = inputs.speaker_seed;
         //{"aiden":2861, "dylan":2878, "eric":2875, "ono_anna":2873,"ryan":3061, "serena":3066, "sohee":2864, "uncle_fu":3010, "vivian":3065}
@@ -1200,6 +1201,7 @@ static tts_generation_outputs ttstype_generate_qwen3tts(const tts_generation_inp
             printf("\nUsing Audio Seed: %d, SpeakerID: %d", audio_seed, speakerID);
         }
         qwen3tts_runner.set_seed(audio_seed);
+        qwen3tts_runner.set_language(ttslanguage);
 
         if(custom_reference_audio_str!="")
         {