diff --git a/themes/pushbutton/page.tpl.php b/themes/pushbutton/page.tpl.php
index 76be1f052760..e64e8569c9d5 100644
--- a/themes/pushbutton/page.tpl.php
+++ b/themes/pushbutton/page.tpl.php
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="{language}" xml:lang="{language}">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="<?php print $language ?>" xml:lang="<?php print $language ?>">
 <head>
   <title><?php print $head_title ?></title>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
