diff --git a/include/tesseract/baseapi.h b/include/tesseract/baseapi.h
index 103ca7b1c9..afb5595ea5 100644
--- a/include/tesseract/baseapi.h
+++ b/include/tesseract/baseapi.h
@@ -566,6 +566,14 @@ class TESS_API TessBaseAPI {
    */
   char *GetTSVText(int page_number);
 
+  /**
+   * Make a TSV-formatted string from the internal data structures.
+   * Allows additional column with detected language.
+   * page_number is 0-based but will appear in the output as 1-based.
+   * Returned string must be freed with the delete [] operator.
+   */
+  char *GetTSVText(int page_number, bool lang_info);
+
   /**
    * Make a box file for LSTM training from the internal data structures.
    * Constructs coordinates in the original image - not just the rectangle.
diff --git a/include/tesseract/renderer.h b/include/tesseract/renderer.h
index 6f40523335..f06ceab0ee 100644
--- a/include/tesseract/renderer.h
+++ b/include/tesseract/renderer.h
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ class TESS_API TessAltoRenderer : public TessResultRenderer {
  */
 class TESS_API TessTsvRenderer : public TessResultRenderer {
 public:
-  explicit TessTsvRenderer(const char *outputbase, bool font_info);
+  explicit TessTsvRenderer(const char *outputbase, bool lang_info);
   explicit TessTsvRenderer(const char *outputbase);
 
 protected:
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ class TESS_API TessTsvRenderer : public TessResultRenderer {
   bool EndDocumentHandler() override;
 
 private:
-  bool font_info_; // whether to print font information
+  bool lang_info_; // whether to print language information
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/api/baseapi.cpp b/src/api/baseapi.cpp
index a21798429a..c6ead6fc7b 100644
--- a/src/api/baseapi.cpp
+++ b/src/api/baseapi.cpp
@@ -1422,6 +1422,16 @@ static void AddBoxToTSV(const PageIterator *it, PageIteratorLevel level, std::st
  * Returned string must be freed with the delete [] operator.
  */
 char *TessBaseAPI::GetTSVText(int page_number) {
+  return GetTSVText(page_number, false);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Make a TSV-formatted string from the internal data structures.
+ * Allows additional column with detected language.
+ * page_number is 0-based but will appear in the output as 1-based.
+ * Returned string must be freed with the delete [] operator.
+ */
+char *TessBaseAPI::GetTSVText(int page_number, bool lang_info) {
   if (tesseract_ == nullptr || (page_res_ == nullptr && Recognize(nullptr) < 0)) {
     return nullptr;
   }
@@ -1434,6 +1444,7 @@ char *TessBaseAPI::GetTSVText(int page_number) {
   int par_num = 0;
   int line_num = 0;
   int word_num = 0;
+  std::string lang;
 
   std::string tsv_str;
   tsv_str += "1\t" + std::to_string(page_num); // level 1 - page
@@ -1445,7 +1456,11 @@ char *TessBaseAPI::GetTSVText(int page_number) {
   tsv_str += "\t" + std::to_string(rect_top_);
   tsv_str += "\t" + std::to_string(rect_width_);
   tsv_str += "\t" + std::to_string(rect_height_);
-  tsv_str += "\t-1\t\n";
+  tsv_str += "\t-1";
+  if (lang_info) {
+    tsv_str += "\t" + lang;
+  }
+  tsv_str += "\t\n";
 
   const std::unique_ptr</*non-const*/ ResultIterator> res_it(GetIterator());
   while (!res_it->Empty(RIL_BLOCK)) {
@@ -1466,9 +1481,16 @@ char *TessBaseAPI::GetTSVText(int page_number) {
       tsv_str += "\t" + std::to_string(line_num);
       tsv_str += "\t" + std::to_string(word_num);
       AddBoxToTSV(res_it.get(), RIL_BLOCK, tsv_str);
-      tsv_str += "\t-1\t\n"; // end of row for block
+      tsv_str += "\t-1";
+      if (lang_info) {
+        tsv_str += "\t";
+      }
+      tsv_str += "\t\n"; // end of row for block
     }
     if (res_it->IsAtBeginningOf(RIL_PARA)) {
+      if (lang_info) {
+        lang = res_it->WordRecognitionLanguage();
+      }
       par_num++;
       line_num = 0;
       word_num = 0;
@@ -1478,7 +1500,11 @@ char *TessBaseAPI::GetTSVText(int page_number) {
       tsv_str += "\t" + std::to_string(line_num);
       tsv_str += "\t" + std::to_string(word_num);
       AddBoxToTSV(res_it.get(), RIL_PARA, tsv_str);
-      tsv_str += "\t-1\t\n"; // end of row for para
+      tsv_str += "\t-1";
+      if (lang_info) {
+        tsv_str += "\t" + lang;
+      }
+      tsv_str += "\t\n"; // end of row for para
     }
     if (res_it->IsAtBeginningOf(RIL_TEXTLINE)) {
       line_num++;
@@ -1489,7 +1515,11 @@ char *TessBaseAPI::GetTSVText(int page_number) {
       tsv_str += "\t" + std::to_string(line_num);
       tsv_str += "\t" + std::to_string(word_num);
       AddBoxToTSV(res_it.get(), RIL_TEXTLINE, tsv_str);
-      tsv_str += "\t-1\t\n"; // end of row for line
+      tsv_str += "\t-1";
+      if (lang_info) {
+        tsv_str += "\t";
+      }
+      tsv_str += "\t\n"; // end of row for line
     }
 
     // Now, process the word...
@@ -1506,9 +1536,17 @@ char *TessBaseAPI::GetTSVText(int page_number) {
     tsv_str += "\t" + std::to_string(right - left);
     tsv_str += "\t" + std::to_string(bottom - top);
     tsv_str += "\t" + std::to_string(res_it->Confidence(RIL_WORD));
-    tsv_str += "\t";
+
+    if (lang_info) {
+      const char *word_lang = res_it->WordRecognitionLanguage();
+      tsv_str += "\t";
+      if (word_lang) {
+        tsv_str += word_lang;
+      }
+    }
 
     // Increment counts if at end of block/paragraph/textline.
+    tsv_str += "\t";
     if (res_it->IsAtFinalElement(RIL_TEXTLINE, RIL_WORD)) {
       lcnt++;
     }
diff --git a/src/api/renderer.cpp b/src/api/renderer.cpp
index 8d4f1adc1b..aa25d905d6 100644
--- a/src/api/renderer.cpp
+++ b/src/api/renderer.cpp
@@ -156,19 +156,23 @@ bool TessTextRenderer::AddImageHandler(TessBaseAPI *api) {
  * TSV Text Renderer interface implementation
  **********************************************************************/
 TessTsvRenderer::TessTsvRenderer(const char *outputbase) : TessResultRenderer(outputbase, "tsv") {
-  font_info_ = false;
+  lang_info_ = false;
 }
 
-TessTsvRenderer::TessTsvRenderer(const char *outputbase, bool font_info)
+TessTsvRenderer::TessTsvRenderer(const char *outputbase, bool lang_info)
     : TessResultRenderer(outputbase, "tsv") {
-  font_info_ = font_info;
+  lang_info_ = lang_info;
 }
 
 bool TessTsvRenderer::BeginDocumentHandler() {
   // Output TSV column headings
   AppendString(
       "level\tpage_num\tblock_num\tpar_num\tline_num\tword_"
-      "num\tleft\ttop\twidth\theight\tconf\ttext\n");
+      "num\tleft\ttop\twidth\theight\tconf\t");
+  if (lang_info_) {
+    AppendString("lang\t");
+  }
+  AppendString("text\n");
   return true;
 }
 
@@ -177,7 +181,7 @@ bool TessTsvRenderer::EndDocumentHandler() {
 }
 
 bool TessTsvRenderer::AddImageHandler(TessBaseAPI *api) {
-  const std::unique_ptr<const char[]> tsv(api->GetTSVText(imagenum()));
+  const std::unique_ptr<const char[]> tsv(api->GetTSVText(imagenum(), lang_info_));
   if (tsv == nullptr) {
     return false;
   }
diff --git a/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.cpp b/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.cpp
index fd58ac8746..a34041fc4a 100644
--- a/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.cpp
+++ b/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.cpp
@@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ Tesseract::Tesseract()
                     this->params())
     , BOOL_MEMBER(textord_tabfind_show_vlines, false, "Debug line finding", this->params())
     , BOOL_MEMBER(textord_use_cjk_fp_model, false, "Use CJK fixed pitch model", this->params())
+    , BOOL_MEMBER(tsv_lang_info, false, "Include language info in the  .tsv output file", this->params())
     , BOOL_MEMBER(poly_allow_detailed_fx, false,
                   "Allow feature extractors to see the original outline", this->params())
     , BOOL_INIT_MEMBER(tessedit_init_config_only, false,
diff --git a/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.h b/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.h
index 732bb9e62e..345e5cab79 100644
--- a/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.h
+++ b/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.h
@@ -920,6 +920,7 @@ class TESS_API Tesseract : public Wordrec {
   BOOL_VAR_H(tessedit_flip_0O);
   double_VAR_H(tessedit_lower_flip_hyphen);
   double_VAR_H(tessedit_upper_flip_hyphen);
+  BOOL_VAR_H(tsv_lang_info);
   BOOL_VAR_H(rej_trust_doc_dawg);
   BOOL_VAR_H(rej_1Il_use_dict_word);
   BOOL_VAR_H(rej_1Il_trust_permuter_type);
diff --git a/src/tesseract.cpp b/src/tesseract.cpp
index 480815564c..25d1c6aaa4 100644
--- a/src/tesseract.cpp
+++ b/src/tesseract.cpp
@@ -533,9 +533,9 @@ static void PreloadRenderers(tesseract::TessBaseAPI &api,
 
     api.GetBoolVariable("tessedit_create_tsv", &b);
     if (b) {
-      bool font_info;
-      api.GetBoolVariable("hocr_font_info", &font_info);
-      auto renderer = std::make_unique<tesseract::TessTsvRenderer>(outputbase, font_info);
+      bool lang_info;
+      api.GetBoolVariable("tsv_lang_info", &lang_info);
+      auto renderer = std::make_unique<tesseract::TessTsvRenderer>(outputbase, lang_info);
       if (renderer->happy()) {
         renderers.push_back(std::move(renderer));
       } else {
diff --git a/tessdata/configs/tsv b/tessdata/configs/tsv
index dc52478177..84fd7adc43 100644
--- a/tessdata/configs/tsv
+++ b/tessdata/configs/tsv
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 tessedit_create_tsv 1
+tsv_lang_info 0