diff --git a/lib/irrlicht/source/Irrlicht/CIrrDeviceiOS.h b/lib/irrlicht/source/Irrlicht/CIrrDeviceiOS.h
index 6c0982ce5..a304f41da 100644
--- a/lib/irrlicht/source/Irrlicht/CIrrDeviceiOS.h
+++ b/lib/irrlicht/source/Irrlicht/CIrrDeviceiOS.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include "IImagePresenter.h"
 #include <map>
 #include <set>
+#include <string>
 
 namespace irr
 {
@@ -112,6 +113,7 @@ namespace irr
             m_touch_id_map.clear();
         }
         void setUpsideDown(bool val) { m_upside_down = val; }
+        static std::string getSystemLanguageCode();
     private:
         void createWindow();
         void createViewAndDriver();
diff --git a/lib/irrlicht/source/Irrlicht/CIrrDeviceiOS.mm b/lib/irrlicht/source/Irrlicht/CIrrDeviceiOS.mm
index be0655ba4..5f1f1a83b 100644
--- a/lib/irrlicht/source/Irrlicht/CIrrDeviceiOS.mm
+++ b/lib/irrlicht/source/Irrlicht/CIrrDeviceiOS.mm
@@ -858,6 +858,11 @@ namespace irr
     {
         [static_cast<SIrrDeviceiOSDataStorage*>(DataStorage)->View display];
     }
+    std::string CIrrDeviceiOS::getSystemLanguageCode()
+    {
+        NSString* language = [[NSLocale preferredLanguages] firstObject];
+        return std::string([language UTF8String]);
+    }
 }
 
 #ifdef _IRR_COMPILE_WITH_IOS_BUILTIN_MAIN_
diff --git a/src/utils/translation.cpp b/src/utils/translation.cpp
index b442cabd6..9d4ca05c3 100644
--- a/src/utils/translation.cpp
+++ b/src/utils/translation.cpp
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@
 #include "main_android.hpp"
 #endif
 
+#ifdef IOS_STK
+#include "../../lib/irrlicht/source/Irrlicht/CIrrDeviceiOS.h"
+#endif
 
 // set to 1 to debug i18n
 #define TRANSLATE_VERBOSE 0
@@ -322,7 +325,14 @@ Translations::Translations() //: m_dictionary_manager("UTF-16")
             language = p_lang;
         else
         {
-#ifdef WIN32
+#ifdef IOS_STK
+            language = irr::CIrrDeviceiOS::getSystemLanguageCode();
+            if (language.find("zh-Hans") != std::string::npos)
+                language = "zh_CN";
+            else if (language.find("zh-Hant") != std::string::npos)
+                language = "zh_TW";
+            language = StringUtils::findAndReplace(language, "-", "_");
+#elif defined(WIN32)
             // Thanks to the frogatto developer for this code snippet:
             char c[1024];
             GetLocaleInfoA(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SISO639LANGNAME,