diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
index 9c9f6f192f..2fe0d478ff 100644
--- a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
+++ b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ ENABLE_WIDEC:class-native = "true"
 # Drop native language support. This removes the
 # eglibc->bash->gettext->libc-posix-clang-wchar dependency.
 USE_NLS="no"
+# As we don't have native language support, don't install locales into images
+IMAGE_LINGUAS = ""
 
 # Comment out any of the lines below to disable them in the build
 # DISTRO_FEATURES options: