diff --git a/dosage b/dosage
index dda573752..e7a914b6a 100755
--- a/dosage
+++ b/dosage
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import os
 import argparse
 import pydoc
 from io import StringIO
-import pycountry
 from dosagelib import events, configuration, singleton, director
 from dosagelib.output import out
 from dosagelib.util import internal_error, strlimit
@@ -154,12 +153,7 @@ def displayComicHelp(scraperobj):
     out.context = scraperobj.getName()
     try:
         out.info(u"URL: " + scraperobj.url)
-        if scraperobj.lang:
-            try:
-                lang = pycountry.languages.get(alpha2 = scraperobj.lang)
-            except KeyError:
-                lang = pycountry.languages.get(iso639_1_code = scraperobj.lang)
-            out.info(u"Language: " + lang.name)
+        out.info(u"Language: " + scraperobj.language())
         if scraperobj.adult:
             out.info(u"Adult comic, use option --adult to fetch.")
         disabled = scraperobj.getDisabledReasons()
diff --git a/dosagelib/languages.py b/dosagelib/languages.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fcdeac584
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dosagelib/languages.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# ISO 693-1 language codes from pycountry
+# This file is automatically generated, DO NOT EDIT!
+Languages = {
+    'de': u'German',
+    'en': u'English',
+    'es': u'Spanish; Castilian',
+    'fi': u'Finnish',
+    'fr': u'French',
+}
diff --git a/dosagelib/scraper.py b/dosagelib/scraper.py
index 2bc6fddf4..835afc53b 100644
--- a/dosagelib/scraper.py
+++ b/dosagelib/scraper.py
@@ -22,7 +22,12 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     cssselect = None
 
-from . import loader, configuration, util
+try:
+    import pycountry
+except ImportError:
+    pycountry = None
+
+from . import loader, configuration, util, languages
 from .util import (getPageContent, makeSequence, get_system_uid, urlopen,
         getDirname, unescape, tagre, normaliseURL, prettyMatcherList)
 from .comic import ComicStrip
@@ -309,6 +314,25 @@ class Scraper(object):
         """
         return {}
 
+    @classmethod
+    def language(cls):
+        """
+        Return language of the comic as a human-readable language name instead
+        of a 2-character ISO639-1 code.
+        """
+        lang = 'Unknown (%s)' % cls.lang
+        if pycountry is None:
+            if cls.lang in languages.Languages:
+                lang = languages.Languages[cls.lang]
+        else:
+            try:
+                lang = pycountry.languages.get(alpha2 = cls.lang).name
+            except KeyError:
+                try:
+                    lang = pycountry.languages.get(iso639_1_code = cls.lang).name
+                except KeyError:
+                    pass
+        return lang
 
 class _BasicScraper(Scraper):
     """
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 588709337..b86af7c1b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # required:
 requests
-pycountry
 # optional:
 argcomplete
 lxml
diff --git a/scripts/mklanguages.py b/scripts/mklanguages.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..6e243060c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/mklanguages.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+# update languages.py from pycountry
+import os
+import sys
+import codecs
+
+basepath = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+sys.path.append(basepath)
+
+from dosagelib.scraper import get_scraperclasses
+
+def main():
+    """Update language information in dosagelib/languages.py."""
+    fn = os.path.join(basepath, 'dosagelib', 'languages.py')
+    encoding = 'utf-8'
+    with codecs.open(fn, 'w', encoding) as f:
+        f.write('# -*- coding: %s -*-%s' % (encoding, os.linesep))
+        f.write('# ISO 693-1 language codes from pycountry%s' % os.linesep)
+        f.write('# This file is automatically generated, DO NOT EDIT!%s' % os.linesep)
+        lang = get_used_languages()
+        write_languages(f, lang)
+
+
+def get_used_languages():
+    lang = {}
+    for scraperclass in get_scraperclasses():
+        l = scraperclass.lang
+        if l not in lang:
+            lang[l] = scraperclass.language()
+    return lang
+
+def write_languages(f, l):
+    """Write language information."""
+    f.write("Languages = {%s" % os.linesep)
+    for lang in sorted(l):
+        f.write("    %r: %r,%s" % (lang, l[lang], os.linesep))
+    f.write("}%s" % os.linesep)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fe41931b1..e6b8091c1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ setup(
     ),
     install_requires = (
         'requests',
-        'pycountry',
     ),
     extras_require = {
         'xpath': ["lxml"],