diff --git a/docs/settings.txt b/docs/settings.txt
index 2bde135e15..042347ccdb 100644
--- a/docs/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/settings.txt
@@ -500,44 +500,17 @@ in standard language format. For example, U.S. English is ``"en-us"``. See the
 LANGUAGES
 ---------
 
-Default: A tuple of all available languages. Currently, this is::
+Default: A tuple of all available languages. This list is continually growing
+and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can
+see the current list of translated languages by looking in
+``django/conf/global_settings.py`` (or view the `online source`_).
 
-    LANGUAGES = (
-        ('ar', _('Arabic')),
-        ('bn', _('Bengali')),
-        ('cs', _('Czech')),
-        ('cy', _('Welsh')),
-        ('da', _('Danish')),
-        ('de', _('German')),
-        ('el', _('Greek')),
-        ('en', _('English')),
-        ('es', _('Spanish')),
-        ('es_AR', _('Argentinean Spanish')),
-        ('fr', _('French')),
-        ('gl', _('Galician')),
-        ('hu', _('Hungarian')),
-        ('he', _('Hebrew')),
-        ('is', _('Icelandic')),
-        ('it', _('Italian')),
-        ('ja', _('Japanese')),
-        ('nl', _('Dutch')),
-        ('no', _('Norwegian')),
-        ('pt-br', _('Brazilian')),
-        ('ro', _('Romanian')),
-        ('ru', _('Russian')),
-        ('sk', _('Slovak')),
-        ('sl', _('Slovenian')),
-        ('sr', _('Serbian')),
-        ('sv', _('Swedish')),
-        ('ta', _('Tamil')),
-        ('uk', _('Ukrainian')),
-        ('zh-cn', _('Simplified Chinese')),
-        ('zh-tw', _('Traditional Chinese')),
-    )
+.. _online source: http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/conf/global_settings.py
 
-A tuple of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name). This
-specifies which languages are available for language selection. See the
-`internationalization docs`_ for details.
+The list is a tuple of two-tuples in the format (language code, language
+name) -- for example, ``('ja', 'Japanese')``. This specifies which languages
+are available for language selection. See the `internationalization docs`_ for
+details.
 
 Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want
 to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages.