diff --git a/config/functions b/config/functions
index b71e1c2107..9aac6b9664 100644
--- a/config/functions
+++ b/config/functions
@@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ show_config() {
   config_message="$config_message\n $dashes$dashes"
 
   config_message="$config_message\n - Kodi version:\t\t\t $MEDIACENTER"
+  config_message="$config_message\n - Kodi include language files:\t\t $KODI_LANGUAGE_ADDONS"
   config_message="$config_message\n - Kodi nonfree support:\t\t $KODI_NONFREE_SUPPORT"
   config_message="$config_message\n - Kodi Blu-Ray support:\t\t $KODI_BLURAY_SUPPORT"
   if [ "$KODI_BLURAY_SUPPORT" = "yes" ] ; then
diff --git a/distributions/OpenELEC/options b/distributions/OpenELEC/options
index 471958ec23..298f1e69a4 100644
--- a/distributions/OpenELEC/options
+++ b/distributions/OpenELEC/options
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@
 # build with Samba Client support (mounting SAMBA shares with KODI) (yes / no)
   KODI_SAMBA_SUPPORT="yes"
 
+# include initial language addons for Kodi (yes / no)
+  KODI_LANGUAGE_ADDONS="yes"
+
 # build with NFS support (mounting nfs shares via the OS) (yes / no)
   NFS_SUPPORT="yes"
 
diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk b/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk
index 34243327cc..c7b54079da 100644
--- a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.kodi.tv"
 PKG_URL="$DISTRO_SRC/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain kodi:host libsquish boost Python zlib bzip2 systemd pciutils lzo pcre swig:host libass curl rtmpdump fontconfig fribidi tinyxml libjpeg-turbo libpng tiff freetype jasper libogg libcdio libmpeg2 taglib libxml2 libxslt yajl sqlite libvorbis ffmpeg crossguid giflib kodi-language-addons"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain kodi:host libsquish boost Python zlib bzip2 systemd pciutils lzo pcre swig:host libass curl rtmpdump fontconfig fribidi tinyxml libjpeg-turbo libpng tiff freetype jasper libogg libcdio libmpeg2 taglib libxml2 libxslt yajl sqlite libvorbis ffmpeg crossguid giflib"
 PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="lzo:host libpng:host libjpeg-turbo:host giflib:host"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="mediacenter"
diff --git a/packages/virtual/mediacenter/package.mk b/packages/virtual/mediacenter/package.mk
index 406813d893..45ce5964f0 100644
--- a/packages/virtual/mediacenter/package.mk
+++ b/packages/virtual/mediacenter/package.mk
@@ -44,4 +44,8 @@ if [ "$MEDIACENTER" = "kodi" ]; then
 
 # other packages
   PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="$PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET OpenELEC-settings"
+
+  if [ "$KODI_LANGUAGE_ADDONS" = "yes" ]; then
+    PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="$PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET kodi-language-addons"
+  fi
 fi