diff --git a/lib/linguist/languages.yml b/lib/linguist/languages.yml
index 4bb5fbef..1587c10d 100755
--- a/lib/linguist/languages.yml
+++ b/lib/linguist/languages.yml
@@ -1994,6 +1994,8 @@ Julia:
   type: programming
   extensions:
   - ".jl"
+  interpreters:
+  - julia
   color: "#a270ba"
   ace_mode: julia
   codemirror_mode: julia