diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 34d5a8bf..1f93ad05 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,17 +20,21 @@ documentation:
 * Add documentation about dictionary flags.
 
 updated languages:
-*  ba (Bashkir) -- boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins
-*  chr (Cherokee) -- Michael Conrad
+*  ba (Bashkir) -- boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins, Juho Hiltunen
 *  de (German) -- Karl Eick
 *  el (Modern Greek) -- Reece Dunn (support for variant Greek letter forms)
 *  en (English) -- Steven Presser, Ben Talagan
 *  ga (Gaelic (Irish)) Chen, Chien-ting 
 *  grc (Ancient Greek) -- Reece Dunn (support for variant Greek letter forms)
+*  hak (Hakka Chinese) -- Juho Hiltunen
+*  haw (Hawaiian) -- Juho Hiltunen
+*  kok (Konkani) -- Juho Hiltunen
+*  nb (Norwegian Bokmål) -- Juho Hiltunen
+*  nci (Classical Nahuatl) -- Juho Hiltunen
 *  hy (Armenian) -- tigransimonyan
 *  ia (Interlingua) -- nesrad
 *  it (Italian) -- Christian Leo
-*  ja (Japanese) -- fukuen
+*  ja (Japanese) -- fukuen, Juho Hiltunen
 *  jbo (Lojban) -- Juho Hiltunen, xunsku
 *  lv (Latvian) -- Valdis Vitolins
 *  mi (Māori) -- boracasli98
@@ -38,7 +42,7 @@ updated languages:
 *  tr (Turkish) -- boracasli98
 *  ur (Urdu) -- Ejaz Shah
 *  uz (Uzbek) -- boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins
-*  zh (Chinese) -- Silas S. Brown, Rongcui Dong, Icenowy Zheng
+*  zh (Chinese) -- Silas S. Brown, Rongcui Dong, Icenowy Zheng, Juho Hiltunen
 
 new languages:
 *  chr (Cherokee) -- Michael Conrad
diff --git a/docs/numbers.md b/docs/numbers.md
index 348fd475..c9fc5991 100644
--- a/docs/numbers.md
+++ b/docs/numbers.md
@@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ language:
 
 These controls how numbers are pronounced.
 
-If `numbers` is set to `0` (the default value), numbers will not be pronounced.
-Setting it to `1` will enable number pronunciation using the dictionary rules.
+If `numbers` is set to `0`, numbers will not be pronounced.
+Setting it to `1` (the default value) will enable number pronunciation using the dictionary rules.
+For more control over number pronunciation, see the flags in `translate.h`.
+
 
     tr->langopts.max_digits
 
diff --git a/src/libespeak-ng/tr_languages.c b/src/libespeak-ng/tr_languages.c
index 72f8df8c..4d4d99d8 100644
--- a/src/libespeak-ng/tr_languages.c
+++ b/src/libespeak-ng/tr_languages.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  * Copyright (C) 2005 to 2015 by Jonathan Duddington
  * email: jonsd@users.sourceforge.net
  * Copyright (C) 2015-2016, 2020 Reece H. Dunn
+ * Copyright (C) 2021 Juho Hiltunen
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -303,6 +304,7 @@ static Translator *NewTranslator(void)
 	tr->langopts.min_roman = 2;
 	tr->langopts.thousands_sep = ',';
 	tr->langopts.decimal_sep = '.';
+	tr->langopts.numbers = NUM_DEFAULT;
 	tr->langopts.break_numbers = BREAK_THOUSANDS;
 	tr->langopts.max_digits = 14;
 
@@ -475,6 +477,18 @@ Translator *SelectTranslator(const char *name)
 
 	switch (name2)
 	{
+	case L('m', 'i'):
+	case L('m', 'y'):
+	case L4('p', 'i', 'q', 'd'): // piqd
+	case L('p', 'y'):
+	case L('q', 'u'):
+	case L3('q', 'u', 'c'):
+	case L('t', 'h'):
+	case L('u', 'z'):
+	{
+		tr->langopts.numbers = 0; // disable numbers until the definition are complete in _list file
+	}
+		break;
 	case L('a', 'f'):
 	{
 		static const short stress_lengths_af[8] = { 170, 140, 220, 220,  0, 0, 250, 270 };
@@ -1050,6 +1064,7 @@ Translator *SelectTranslator(const char *name)
 		tr->langopts.param[LOPT_CAPS_IN_WORD] = 1; // capitals indicate stressed syllables
 		SetLetterVowel(tr, 'y');
 		tr->langopts.max_lengthmod = 368;
+		tr->langopts.numbers = 0; // disable numbers until the definition are complete in _list file
 	}
 		break;
 	case L('k', 'a'): // Georgian
diff --git a/src/libespeak-ng/translate.h b/src/libespeak-ng/translate.h
index d9f79b4a..75ef984c 100644
--- a/src/libespeak-ng/translate.h
+++ b/src/libespeak-ng/translate.h
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ extern "C"
 
 #define L(c1, c2) (c1<<8)+c2 // combine two characters into an integer for translator name
 #define L3(c1, c2, c3) (c1<<16)+(c2<<8) + c3 // combine three characters into an integer for translator name
+#define L4(c1, c2, c3, c4) (c1<<24)+(c2<<16)+(c3<<8) + c4 // combine four characters into an integer for translator name
 
 #define CTRL_EMBEDDED    0x01 // control character at the start of an embedded command
 #define REPLACED_E       'E' // 'e' replaced by silent e