diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3bf964e4..7c38bd46 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ You can check it out by running `mkdocs serve` in the terminal. Once you are sat
 
 > NOTE: If a file isn't translated, it will just default to the default language file. So you don't have to translate everything all at once.
 
-Finally, you should add the new language to the [issue template](https://github.com/vapor/docs/blob/main/.github/workflows/translation-issue-template.md) to ensure that any future changes are applied to the new translation.
+Finally, you should add the new language to the [issue template](https://github.com/vapor/docs/blob/main/.github/workflows/translation-issue-template.md) to ensure that any future changes are applied to the new translation and to the [search index script](https://github.com/vapor/docs/blob/main/fixSearchIndex.swift) to ensure search works correctly.
 
 
   
diff --git a/fixSearchIndex.swift b/fixSearchIndex.swift
index ac8f6654..86346f8c 100755
--- a/fixSearchIndex.swift
+++ b/fixSearchIndex.swift
@@ -37,13 +37,22 @@ let searchIndex = try JSONDecoder().decode(SearchIndex.self, from: indexData)
 var newSearchIndex = searchIndex
 var searchIndexDocs = [SearchIndexDocs]()
 
+let knownLanguages = [
+        "en",
+        "de",
+        "es",
+        "fr",
+        "it",
+        "ko",
+        "nl",
+        "pl",
+        "zh",
+    ].map { "\($0)/" }
+
+
 for doc in newSearchIndex.docs {
-    if !doc.location.starts(with: "en/")
-      && !doc.location.starts(with: "zh/")
-      && !doc.location.starts(with: "de/")
-      && !doc.location.starts(with: "fr/") 
-      && !doc.location.starts(with: "nl/") {
-          searchIndexDocs.append(doc)
+    if !knownLanguages.contains(where: { doc.location.starts(with: $0) }) {
+        searchIndexDocs.append(doc)
     }
 }