diff --git a/source/pdo_sqlsrv/pdo_dbh.cpp b/source/pdo_sqlsrv/pdo_dbh.cpp
index 669bc62b..0f87c7c2 100644
--- a/source/pdo_sqlsrv/pdo_dbh.cpp
+++ b/source/pdo_sqlsrv/pdo_dbh.cpp
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ const char AttachDBFileName[] = "AttachDbFileName";
 const char Authentication[] = "Authentication";
 const char ColumnEncryption[] = "ColumnEncryption";
 const char ConnectionPooling[] = "ConnectionPooling";
+const char Language[] = "Language";
 const char ConnectRetryCount[] = "ConnectRetryCount";
 const char ConnectRetryInterval[] = "ConnectRetryInterval";
 const char Database[] = "Database";
@@ -241,6 +242,15 @@ const connection_option PDO_CONN_OPTS[] = {
         CONN_ATTR_BOOL,
         conn_null_func::func
     },
+    {
+        PDOConnOptionNames::Language,
+        sizeof( PDOConnOptionNames::Language ),
+        SQLSRV_CONN_OPTION_LANGUAGE,
+        ODBCConnOptions::Language,
+        sizeof( ODBCConnOptions::Language ),
+        CONN_ATTR_STRING,
+        conn_str_append_func::func
+    },
     {
         PDOConnOptionNames::Driver,
         sizeof(PDOConnOptionNames::Driver),
diff --git a/source/shared/core_sqlsrv.h b/source/shared/core_sqlsrv.h
index 886d5e82..d4ffdda5 100644
--- a/source/shared/core_sqlsrv.h
+++ b/source/shared/core_sqlsrv.h
@@ -1131,6 +1131,7 @@ const char Authentication[] = "Authentication";
 const char Driver[] = "Driver";
 const char CharacterSet[] = "CharacterSet";
 const char ConnectionPooling[] = "ConnectionPooling";
+const char Language[] = "Language";
 const char ColumnEncryption[] = "ColumnEncryption";
 const char ConnectRetryCount[] = "ConnectRetryCount";
 const char ConnectRetryInterval[] = "ConnectRetryInterval";
@@ -1163,6 +1164,7 @@ enum SQLSRV_CONN_OPTIONS {
     SQLSRV_CONN_OPTION_ACCESS_TOKEN,
     SQLSRV_CONN_OPTION_CHARACTERSET,
     SQLSRV_CONN_OPTION_CONN_POOLING,
+    SQLSRV_CONN_OPTION_LANGUAGE,
     SQLSRV_CONN_OPTION_DATABASE,
     SQLSRV_CONN_OPTION_ENCRYPT,
     SQLSRV_CONN_OPTION_FAILOVER_PARTNER,
diff --git a/source/sqlsrv/conn.cpp b/source/sqlsrv/conn.cpp
index 532934f7..f4827863 100644
--- a/source/sqlsrv/conn.cpp
+++ b/source/sqlsrv/conn.cpp
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ const char Authentication[] = "Authentication";
 const char CharacterSet[] = "CharacterSet";
 const char ColumnEncryption[] = "ColumnEncryption";
 const char ConnectionPooling[] = "ConnectionPooling";
+const char Language[] = "Language";
 const char ConnectRetryCount[] = "ConnectRetryCount";
 const char ConnectRetryInterval[] = "ConnectRetryInterval";
 const char Database[] = "Database";
@@ -380,6 +381,15 @@ const connection_option SS_CONN_OPTS[] = {
         CONN_ATTR_BOOL,
         conn_null_func::func
     },
+    {
+        SSConnOptionNames::Language,
+        sizeof(SSConnOptionNames::Language),
+        SQLSRV_CONN_OPTION_LANGUAGE,
+        ODBCConnOptions::Language,
+        sizeof(ODBCConnOptions::Language),
+        CONN_ATTR_STRING,
+        conn_str_append_func::func
+    },
     {
         SSConnOptionNames::Driver,
         sizeof(SSConnOptionNames::Driver),
diff --git a/test/functional/sqlsrv/test_error_encoding_with_language_option.phpt b/test/functional/sqlsrv/test_error_encoding_with_language_option.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0d5d4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/functional/sqlsrv/test_error_encoding_with_language_option.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+--TEST--
+Encoding of sqlsrv errors
+--SKIPIF--
+<?php require('skipif.inc'); ?>
+--FILE--
+<?php
+header('content-type: text/plain;encoding=ISO-8859-1');
+
+require_once("MsCommon.inc");
+
+$conn = connect(array( 'CharacterSet'=>'UTF-8','Language'=>'German' ));
+if (!$conn) {
+    die(print_r(sqlsrv_errors(), true));
+}
+
+$stmt = sqlsrv_query($conn, "select *, BadColumn from sys.syslanguages");
+if ($stmt) {
+    echo 'OK!';
+    sqlsrv_free_stmt($stmt);
+} else {
+    $errs = sqlsrv_errors();
+    print_r($errs);
+}
+
+sqlsrv_close($conn);
+
+?>
+--EXPECTF--
+Array
+(
+    [0] => Array
+        (
+            [0] => 42S22
+            [SQLSTATE] => 42S22
+            [1] => 207
+            [code] => 207
+            [2] => %SUngültiger Spaltenname %cBadColumn%c.
+            [message] => %SUngültiger Spaltenname %cBadColumn%c.
+        )
+
+)