diff --git a/trafilatura/settings.py b/trafilatura/settings.py
index 778543ae..6e047b66 100644
--- a/trafilatura/settings.py
+++ b/trafilatura/settings.py
@@ -454,6 +454,7 @@ def as_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Optional[str]]:
     "hr": "Croatian",
     "hu": "Hungarian",
     # 'ja': '',
+    "ku": "Kurdish",
     "ko": "Korean",
     "id": "Indonesian",
     "it": "Italian",