diff --git a/evennia/contrib/rpg/rpsystem/README.md b/evennia/contrib/rpg/rpsystem/README.md
index 8e83c8e1a4..8fa3df8f18 100644
--- a/evennia/contrib/rpg/rpsystem/README.md
+++ b/evennia/contrib/rpg/rpsystem/README.md
@@ -82,7 +82,9 @@ Example for your character:
     > type/reset/force me = typeclasses.characters.Character
 
 
-Examples:
+### Usage
+
+#### Sdescs
 
     > look
 
@@ -105,6 +107,14 @@ Tall man (assuming his name is Tom) sees:
 
 Note that by default, the case of the tag matters, so `/tall` will lead to 'tall man' while `/Tall` will become 'Tall man' and /TALL becomes /TALL MAN. If you don't want this behavior, you can pass case_sensitive=False to the `send_emote` function.
 
+#### Language integration
+
+Speech can be identified as a particular language by prefixing it with the language key.
+
+    emote says with a growl, orcish"Hello".
+
+This will identify the speech "Hello" as being spoken in orcish, and then pass that information on to `process_language` on your Character. By default, it doesn't do much, but you can hook in a language system such as the `rplanguage` module below to do more interesting things.
+
 
 ##  Language and whisper obfuscation system
 
diff --git a/evennia/contrib/rpg/rpsystem/rpsystem.py b/evennia/contrib/rpg/rpsystem/rpsystem.py
index f1c7bb6728..6d3c04f933 100644
--- a/evennia/contrib/rpg/rpsystem/rpsystem.py
+++ b/evennia/contrib/rpg/rpsystem/rpsystem.py
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ _RE_CHAREND = re.compile(r"\W+$", _RE_FLAGS)
 _RE_REF_LANG = re.compile(r"\{+\##([0-9]+)\}+")
 # language says in the emote are on the form "..." or langname"..." (no spaces).
 # this regex returns in groups (langname, say), where langname can be empty.
-_RE_LANGUAGE = re.compile(r"(?:\((\w+)\))*(\".+?\")")
+_RE_LANGUAGE = re.compile(r"(?:(\w+))*(\".+?\")")
 
 
 # the emote parser works in two steps:
diff --git a/evennia/contrib/rpg/rpsystem/tests.py b/evennia/contrib/rpg/rpsystem/tests.py
index f0378c7b71..3dc534e914 100644
--- a/evennia/contrib/rpg/rpsystem/tests.py
+++ b/evennia/contrib/rpg/rpsystem/tests.py
@@ -153,6 +153,15 @@ class TestRPSystem(BaseEvenniaTest):
                 {"##0": (None, '"This is a test."')},
             ),
         )
+        language_emote = 'For a change of pace, /me says, elvish"This is in elvish!"'
+        self.assertEqual(
+            rpsystem.parse_language(self.speaker, language_emote),
+            (
+                'For a change of pace, /me says, {##0}',
+                {"##0": ('elvish', '"This is in elvish!"')},
+            ),
+        )
+
 
     def test_parse_sdescs_and_recogs(self):
         speaker = self.speaker