diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index f1e99ee8cac..11c6766da9d 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# Properly detect languages on Github
+*.h linguist-language=cpp
+
 *.cpp eol=lf
 *.h eol=lf
 *.py eol=lf