diff --git a/Views/Settings/LanguageSelector.swift b/Views/Settings/LanguageSelector.swift
index e3310ebf..89038a23 100644
--- a/Views/Settings/LanguageSelector.swift
+++ b/Views/Settings/LanguageSelector.swift
@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ class Languages {
         count.expressionResultType = .integer16AttributeType
         
         let fetchRequest = NSFetchRequest<NSFetchRequestResult>(entityName: "ZimFile")
+        // exclude the already downloaded files, they might have invalid language set
+        // but we are mainly interested in fetched content
+        fetchRequest.predicate = ZimFile.Predicate.notDownloaded
         fetchRequest.propertiesToFetch = ["languageCode", count]
         fetchRequest.propertiesToGroupBy = ["languageCode"]
         fetchRequest.resultType = .dictionaryResultType