diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-language/setup.py b/packages/google-cloud-language/setup.py
index 5cce974399ab..d0fc06afc691 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-language/setup.py
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-language/setup.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 
 
 REQUIREMENTS = [
-    'google-cloud-core[grpc] >= 0.27.1, < 0.28dev',
+    'google-cloud-core[grpc] >= 0.28.0, < 0.29dev',
     'google-gax >= 0.15.14, < 0.16dev',
 ]
 EXTRAS_REQUIRE = {