diff --git a/spacy/de/__init__.py b/spacy/de/__init__.py
index be5b3b0f0..7a8e5727c 100644
--- a/spacy/de/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/de/__init__.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals, print_function
 from os import path
 
 from ..language import Language
+from ..attrs import LANG
 from . import language_data
 
 
@@ -11,6 +12,8 @@ class German(Language):
     
     class Defaults(Language.Defaults):
         tokenizer_exceptions = dict(language_data.TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS)
+        lex_attr_getters = dict(Language.Defaults.lex_attr_getters)
+        lex_attr_getters[LANG] = lambda text: 'de'
         
         prefixes = tuple(language_data.TOKENIZER_PREFIXES)
         
diff --git a/spacy/en/__init__.py b/spacy/en/__init__.py
index fdd17904f..ade3e8e7a 100644
--- a/spacy/en/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/en/__init__.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from .. import util
 from ..lemmatizer import Lemmatizer
 from ..vocab import Vocab
 from ..tokenizer import Tokenizer
+from ..attrs import LANG
 
 
 class English(Language):
@@ -15,13 +16,14 @@ class English(Language):
 
     class Defaults(Language.Defaults):
         lex_attr_getters = dict(Language.Defaults.lex_attr_getters)
+        lex_attr_getters[LANG] = lambda text: 'en'
 
         tokenizer_exceptions = dict(language_data.TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS)
-        
+ 
         prefixes = tuple(language_data.TOKENIZER_PREFIXES)
-        
+
         suffixes = tuple(language_data.TOKENIZER_SUFFIXES)
-        
+
         infixes = tuple(language_data.TOKENIZER_INFIXES)
 
         tag_map = dict(language_data.TAG_MAP)