diff --git a/ihtml/themes/breezy/headers.tpl b/ihtml/themes/breezy/headers.tpl
index 9753b1eae700a1cf03a78326fa3f05b2d488998b..6473914017466e416fe5bec394d3f2569b017993 100644
--- a/ihtml/themes/breezy/headers.tpl
+++ b/ihtml/themes/breezy/headers.tpl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" {if $rtl}dir="rtl" class="rtl"{else}class="ltr"{/if}>
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" {if $lang}lang="{$lang}" xml:lang="{$lang}"{/if} {if $rtl}dir="rtl" class="rtl"{else}class="ltr"{/if}>
 
 <head>
   <title>{if isset($title)}{$title}{else}FusionDirectory{/if}</title>