diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/81931-locale-related-parsing-error-git.yml b/changelogs/fragments/81931-locale-related-parsing-error-git.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8ec3e9c5082
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/81931-locale-related-parsing-error-git.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - Fix setting proper locale for git executable when running on non english systems, ensuring git output can always be parsed.
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/git.py b/lib/ansible/modules/git.py
index f40e43f30a5..5460a24a269 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/git.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/git.py
@@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ def main():
     # We screenscrape a huge amount of git commands so use C locale anytime we
     # call run_command()
     locale = get_best_parsable_locale(module)
-    module.run_command_environ_update = dict(LANG=locale, LC_ALL=locale, LC_MESSAGES=locale, LC_CTYPE=locale)
+    module.run_command_environ_update = dict(LANG=locale, LC_ALL=locale, LC_MESSAGES=locale, LC_CTYPE=locale, LANGUAGE=locale)
 
     if separate_git_dir:
         separate_git_dir = os.path.realpath(separate_git_dir)