diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 34ea61503ad6..5c0da629591f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -149,4 +149,9 @@ dev/data/backups/dev_sample_data*.zip
 !dev/data/backups/test*.zip
 dev/data/recipes/*
 dev/scripts/output/app_routes.py
-dev/scripts/output/javascriptAPI/*
\ No newline at end of file
+dev/scripts/output/javascriptAPI/*
+mealie/services/scraper/ingredient_nlp/model.crfmodel
+.gitignore
+frontend/.nuxt/**
+frontend/static/sw.js
+dev/code-generation/generated/*
diff --git a/mealie/schema/settings.py b/mealie/schema/settings.py
index 456e2d8813dc..4d4468faa284 100644
--- a/mealie/schema/settings.py
+++ b/mealie/schema/settings.py
@@ -5,6 +5,42 @@ from mealie.schema.category import CategoryBase, RecipeCategoryResponse
 from pydantic import validator
 from slugify import slugify
 
+# Cluge Validator for ISSUE: #671
+langs = {
+    "el-GR",
+    "it-IT",
+    "ko-KR",
+    "es-ES",
+    "ja-JP",
+    "zh-CN",
+    "tr-TR",
+    "ar-SA",
+    "hu-HU",
+    "pt-PT",
+    "no-NO",
+    "sv-SE",
+    "ro-RO",
+    "sk-SK",
+    "uk-UA",
+    "pl-PL",
+    "da-DK",
+    "pt-BR",
+    "de-DE",
+    "ca-ES",
+    "sr-SP",
+    "cs-CZ",
+    "fr-FR",
+    "zh-TW",
+    "af-ZA",
+    "ru-RU",
+    "he-IL",
+    "nl-NL",
+    "en-US",
+    "en-GB",
+    "fi-FI",
+    "vi-VN",
+}
+
 
 class SiteSettings(CamelModel):
     language: str = "en-US"
@@ -29,6 +65,12 @@ class SiteSettings(CamelModel):
             }
         }
 
+    @validator("language")
+    def language_validator(cls, v: str):
+        if v not in langs:
+            return "en-US"
+        return v
+
 
 class CustomPageBase(CamelModel):
     name: str
diff --git a/tests/integration_tests/test_settings_routes.py b/tests/integration_tests/test_settings_routes.py
index 03a2cb08a620..f8139071664d 100644
--- a/tests/integration_tests/test_settings_routes.py
+++ b/tests/integration_tests/test_settings_routes.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ def test_default_settings(api_client: TestClient, api_routes: AppRoutes, default
 
 
 def test_update_settings(api_client: TestClient, api_routes: AppRoutes, default_settings, admin_token):
-    default_settings["language"] = "fr"
+    default_settings["language"] = "fr-FR"
     default_settings["showRecent"] = False
 
     response = api_client.put(api_routes.site_settings, json=default_settings, headers=admin_token)