diff --git a/common/culture/cultures/NEOW_south_slavic.txt b/common/culture/cultures/NEOW_south_slavic.txt
index 3731f53b..dac806d8 100644
--- a/common/culture/cultures/NEOW_south_slavic.txt
+++ b/common/culture/cultures/NEOW_south_slavic.txt
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ NEOW_macedonian = {
 	
 	ethos = ethos_bureaucratic
 	heritage = heritage_south_slavic
-	language = NEOW_language_east_south_slavic	#More or less a west slavic group who ended up adopting south slavic languages after the Avars cut off the slavs in the Pannonian basin
+	language = language_macedonian	#More or less a west slavic group who ended up adopting south slavic languages after the Avars cut off the slavs in the Pannonian basin
 	martial_custom = martial_custom_male_only
 	head_determination = head_determination_domain