diff --git a/snippets/resources/texts.json b/snippets/resources/texts.json
index ae1357976..4d4f8482a 100644
--- a/snippets/resources/texts.json
+++ b/snippets/resources/texts.json
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 {
   "$schema": "../node_modules/tabris/schema/texts.json",
-  "$fallbackLanguage": "en-us",
+  "$fallbackLanguage": "en-US",
   "emphasisFont": {
-    "en-us": "Emphasis Font",
+    "en": "Emphasis Font",
     "de": "Hervorgehobene Schrift"
   },
   "tintColor": {
diff --git a/src/tabris/util-resources.js b/src/tabris/util-resources.js
index f3274e70e..2e7f1e21e 100644
--- a/src/tabris/util-resources.js
+++ b/src/tabris/util-resources.js
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ function isLangSelector(value, fallback) {
   if (langLikeKeys.length === 0) {
     return false;
   }
-  if (!value[fallback]) {
+  if (!value[fallback.toLowerCase()] && !value[fallback.toLowerCase().split('-')[0]]) {
     throw new Error(
       `Missing entry for fallback language (currently "${fallback}") `
       + 'in selector '
@@ -271,15 +271,12 @@ function getNearbyValue(selectable, approx, strategy) {
  * @param {string} fallback
  */
 function getLocalValue(source, language, fallback) {
-  const lowerLang = language.toLowerCase();
-  let bestMatch = fallback;
-  for (const key in source) {
-    const lowerKey = key.toLowerCase();
-    if ((lowerLang.indexOf(lowerKey) === 0) && (lowerKey.length >= bestMatch.length)) {
-      return bestMatch = source[key];
-    }
-  }
-  return source[bestMatch];
+  const map = {};
+  Object.keys(source).forEach(key => map[key.toLowerCase()] = source[key]);
+  return map[language.toLowerCase()]
+    || map[language.toLowerCase().split('-')[0]]
+    || map[fallback.toLowerCase()]
+    || map[fallback.toLowerCase().split('-')[0]];
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/test/tabris/Resources.test.js b/test/tabris/Resources.test.js
index 7c47c67ed..5aedbfe56 100644
--- a/test/tabris/Resources.test.js
+++ b/test/tabris/Resources.test.js
@@ -249,6 +249,11 @@ describe('Resources', function() {
         expect(create({foo: {'de-DE': 1, 'de-AT': 2, 'en': 3}}).foo).to.equal(1);
       });
 
+      it('selects for more specific match', function() {
+        expect(create({foo: {'de-DE': 2, 'de': 1, 'en': 3}}).foo).to.equal(2);
+        expect(create({foo: {'de': 2, 'de-DE': 1, 'en': 3}}).foo).to.equal(1);
+      });
+
       it('falls back to default (en)', function() {
         expect(create({foo: {es: 1, aaq: 2, en: 3}}).foo).to.equal(3);
       });
@@ -258,6 +263,16 @@ describe('Resources', function() {
         expect(create({foo: {es: 1, aaq: 2, en: 3}}).foo).to.equal(1);
       });
 
+      it('falls back to longer version of configured default', function() {
+        options.config = {fallbackLanguage: 'en-US'};
+        expect(create({foo: {'en': 1, 'en-US': 2, 'es': 3}}).foo).to.equal(2);
+      });
+
+      it('falls back to shorter version of configured default', function() {
+        options.config = {fallbackLanguage: 'en-us'};
+        expect(create({foo: {es: 1, en: 3}}).foo).to.equal(3);
+      });
+
       it('selects case-insensitive', function() {
         expect(create({foo: {en: 1, DE: 2, aaq: 3}}).foo).to.equal(2);
       });