diff --git a/src/libespeak-ng/tr_languages.c b/src/libespeak-ng/tr_languages.c
index 4feb86a9..b8d91b1d 100644
--- a/src/libespeak-ng/tr_languages.c
+++ b/src/libespeak-ng/tr_languages.c
@@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ static Translator *NewTranslator(void)
 	tr->encoding = ESPEAKNG_ENCODING_ISO_8859_1;
 	dictionary_name[0] = 0;
 	tr->dictionary_name[0] = 0;
+	tr->phonemes_repeat[0] = 0;
 	tr->dict_condition = 0;
 	tr->dict_min_size = 0;
 	tr->data_dictrules = NULL; // language_1   translation rules file