diff --git a/app/Providers/TranslationServiceProvider.php b/app/Providers/TranslationServiceProvider.php
index 3610a1e22..6bf57e021 100644
--- a/app/Providers/TranslationServiceProvider.php
+++ b/app/Providers/TranslationServiceProvider.php
@@ -3,10 +3,41 @@
 namespace BookStack\Providers;
 
 use BookStack\Translation\FileLoader;
+use BookStack\Translation\MessageSelector;
 use Illuminate\Translation\TranslationServiceProvider as BaseProvider;
+use Illuminate\Translation\Translator;
 
 class TranslationServiceProvider extends BaseProvider
 {
+    /**
+     * Register the service provider.
+     *
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function register()
+    {
+        $this->registerLoader();
+
+        // This is a tweak upon Laravel's based translation service registration to allow
+        // usage of a custom MessageSelector class
+        $this->app->singleton('translator', function ($app) {
+            $loader = $app['translation.loader'];
+
+            // When registering the translator component, we'll need to set the default
+            // locale as well as the fallback locale. So, we'll grab the application
+            // configuration so we can easily get both of these values from there.
+            $locale = $app['config']['app.locale'];
+
+            $trans = new Translator($loader, $locale);
+            $trans->setFallback($app['config']['app.fallback_locale']);
+            $trans->setSelector(new MessageSelector());
+
+            return $trans;
+        });
+    }
+
+
+
     /**
      * Register the translation line loader.
      * Overrides the default register action from Laravel so a custom loader can be used.
diff --git a/app/Translation/MessageSelector.php b/app/Translation/MessageSelector.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1a4771b3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/Translation/MessageSelector.php
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace BookStack\Translation;
+
+use Illuminate\Translation\MessageSelector as BaseClass;
+
+/**
+ * This is a customization of the default Laravel MessageSelector class to tweak pluralization,
+ * so that is uses just the first part of the locale string to provide support with
+ * non-standard locales such as "de_informal".
+ */
+class MessageSelector extends BaseClass
+{
+    public function getPluralIndex($locale, $number)
+    {
+        $locale = explode('_', $locale)[0];
+        return parent::getPluralIndex($locale, $number);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/LanguageTest.php b/tests/LanguageTest.php
index ef44af0ee..27de5f875 100644
--- a/tests/LanguageTest.php
+++ b/tests/LanguageTest.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ namespace Tests;
 
 class LanguageTest extends TestCase
 {
-    protected $langs;
+    protected array $langs;
 
     /**
      * LanguageTest constructor.
@@ -81,4 +81,16 @@ class LanguageTest extends TestCase
         $this->get('/');
         $this->assertTrue(config('app.rtl'), 'App RTL config should have been set to true by middleware');
     }
+
+    public function test_pluralisation_for_non_standard_locales()
+    {
+        $text = trans_choice('entities.x_pages', 1, [], 'de_informal');
+        $this->assertEquals('1 Seite', $text);
+
+        $text = trans_choice('entities.x_pages', 2, [], 'de_informal');
+        $this->assertEquals('2 Seiten', $text);
+
+        $text = trans_choice('entities.x_pages', 0, [], 'de_informal');
+        $this->assertEquals('0 Seiten', $text);
+    }
 }