diff --git a/doc/source/configuration/settings.rst b/doc/source/configuration/settings.rst
index 42324d587d..e22ea4a5c1 100644
--- a/doc/source/configuration/settings.rst
+++ b/doc/source/configuration/settings.rst
@@ -472,6 +472,40 @@ This can be either a literal URL path (such as the default), or Python's
 dotted string notation representing a function which will evaluate what URL
 a user should be redirected to based on the attributes of that user.
 
+
+LANGUAGE
+--------
+
+Default: ``all languages with translation catalogs are enabled``
+
+If you would like to enable a specific set of languages, you can do this
+by setting LANGUAGES list below. Each entry is a tuple of language code
+and language name.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    LANGUAGES = (
+      ('cs', 'Czech'),
+      ('de', 'German'),
+      ('en', 'English'),
+      ('en-au', 'Australian English'),
+      ('en-gb', 'British English'),
+      ('eo', 'Esperanto'),
+      ('es', 'Spanish'),
+      ('fr', 'French'),
+      ('id', 'Indonesian'),
+      ('it', 'Italian'),
+      ('ja', 'Japanese'),
+      ('ko', 'Korean (Korea)'),
+      ('pl', 'Polish'),
+      ('pt-br', 'Portuguese (Brazil)'),
+      ('ru', 'Russian'),
+      ('tr', 'Turkish'),
+      ('zh-hans', 'Simplified Chinese'),
+      ('zh-hant', 'Traditional Chinese'),
+    )
+
+
 MESSAGES_PATH
 -------------
 
diff --git a/openstack_dashboard/local/local_settings.py.example b/openstack_dashboard/local/local_settings.py.example
index 0b86b9aac3..8facc58331 100644
--- a/openstack_dashboard/local/local_settings.py.example
+++ b/openstack_dashboard/local/local_settings.py.example
@@ -133,6 +133,32 @@ TIME_ZONE = "UTC"
 #    ('example', 'Example', 'themes/example'),
 #]
 
+# By default all languages with translation catalogs are enabled.
+# If you would like to enable a specific set of languages,
+# you can do this by setting LANGUAGES list below.
+# Each entry is a tuple of language code and language name.
+
+#LANGUAGES = (
+#    ('cs', 'Czech'),
+#    ('de', 'German'),
+#    ('en', 'English'),
+#    ('en-au', 'Australian English'),
+#    ('en-gb', 'British English'),
+#    ('eo', 'Esperanto'),
+#    ('es', 'Spanish'),
+#    ('fr', 'French'),
+#    ('id', 'Indonesian'),
+#    ('it', 'Italian'),
+#    ('ja', 'Japanese'),
+#    ('ko', 'Korean (Korea)'),
+#    ('pl', 'Polish'),
+#    ('pt-br', 'Portuguese (Brazil)'),
+#    ('ru', 'Russian'),
+#    ('tr', 'Turkish'),
+#    ('zh-hans', 'Simplified Chinese'),
+#    ('zh-hant', 'Traditional Chinese'),
+#)
+
 LOGGING = {
     'version': 1,
     # When set to True this will disable all logging except