diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index dfe0770..dc13e55 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
+# Set ccpt language to lua
+ccpt linguist-language=lua
 # Auto detect text files and perform LF normalization
 * text=auto