diff --git a/src/CutAndPaste.cpp b/src/CutAndPaste.cpp
index 561e3e4b57..bf2986decd 100644
--- a/src/CutAndPaste.cpp
+++ b/src/CutAndPaste.cpp
@@ -1040,7 +1040,10 @@ void copySelectionToStack(Cursor const & cur, CutStack & cutstack)
 		BufferParams const & bp = cur.buffer()->params();
 		// FIXME This should be the plain layout...right?
 		par.setLayout(bp.documentClass().plainLayout());
-		par.insert(0, grabSelection(cur), Font(), Change(Change::UNCHANGED));
+		// For pasting into text, we set the language to the paragraph language
+		// (rather than the default_language which is always English; see #2596)
+		par.insert(0, grabSelection(cur), Font(sane_font, par.getParLanguage(bp)),
+			   Change(Change::UNCHANGED));
 		pars.push_back(par);
 		cutstack.push(make_pair(pars, bp.documentClassPtr()));
 	}
diff --git a/status.23x b/status.23x
index c186061ad7..4e2348d12b 100644
--- a/status.23x
+++ b/status.23x
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ What's new
 - Do not use English, but the context language, when pasting from LaTeX
   (bug 9199).
 
+- Do not use English, but the context language, when pasting from math
+  (bug 2596).
+
 
 * INTERNALS