diff --git a/htdocs/translate.class.php b/htdocs/translate.class.php
index b693f50941c..f6d1b8dd50d 100644
--- a/htdocs/translate.class.php
+++ b/htdocs/translate.class.php
@@ -213,7 +213,8 @@ class Translate {
 			if ($this->defaultlang == "en_US") $scandiralt = $searchdir."/fr_FR";
             elseif (eregi('^fr',$this->defaultlang) && $this->defaultlang != 'fr_FR') $scandiralt = $searchdir."/fr_FR";
             elseif (eregi('^en',$this->defaultlang) && $this->defaultlang != 'en_US') $scandiralt = $searchdir."/en_US";
-           	else $scandiralt = $searchdir."/en_US";
+            elseif (eregi('^es',$this->defaultlang) && $this->defaultlang != 'es_ES') $scandiralt = $searchdir."/es_ES";
+            else $scandiralt = $searchdir."/en_US";
 
             $file_lang = $scandiralt . "/".$domain.".lang";
             $filelangexists=is_file($file_lang);