diff --git a/cvat/apps/dataset_manager/formats/common_voice.py b/cvat/apps/dataset_manager/formats/common_voice.py
index bc525c91cd8e..1e6be783ded1 100644
--- a/cvat/apps/dataset_manager/formats/common_voice.py
+++ b/cvat/apps/dataset_manager/formats/common_voice.py
@@ -39,22 +39,6 @@ def load_anno(file_object, annotations):
         label_name = record.get("label")
         label_id = label_data._get_label_id(label_name)
 
-        language_id_to_locale_mapping = {
-            0: "en-US",
-            1: "es-ES",
-            2: "fr-FR",
-            3: "zh-CN",
-            4: "hi-IN",
-            5: "ar-EG",
-            6: "pt-BR",
-            7: "ja-JP",
-            8: "de-DE",
-            9: "ru-RU",
-        }
-
-        # defaults to -1 if language field not in tsv, locale will be an empty string
-        language_id = int(record.get("language", -1))
-
         attributes = []
 
         for i in range(1, len(headers)):
@@ -89,7 +73,7 @@ def load_anno(file_object, annotations):
                 "transcript": record.get("sentence", ""),
                 "gender": record.get("gender", ""),
                 "age": record.get("age", ""),
-                "locale": language_id_to_locale_mapping.get(language_id, ""),
+                "locale": record.get("locale", ""),
                 "accent": record.get("accents", ""),
                 "emotion": record.get("emotion", ""),
                 "rotation": 0.0,