diff --git a/lua/noice/health.lua b/lua/noice/health.lua
index 97dbdbb..99f37f6 100644
--- a/lua/noice/health.lua
+++ b/lua/noice/health.lua
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ local require = require("noice.util.lazy")
 local Util = require("noice.util")
 local Config = require("noice.config")
 local Lsp = require("noice.lsp")
+local Treesitter = require("noice.text.treesitter")
 
 local M = {}
 
@@ -118,7 +119,7 @@ function M.check(opts)
     end
 
     for _, lang in ipairs({ "vim", "regex", "lua", "bash", "markdown", "markdown_inline" }) do
-      if pcall(vim.treesitter.language.require_language, lang) then
+      if Treesitter.has_lang(lang) then
         log.ok("**TreeSitter " .. lang .. "** parser is installed")
       else
         log.warn(
diff --git a/lua/noice/text/treesitter.lua b/lua/noice/text/treesitter.lua
index 19dac37..99c7d74 100644
--- a/lua/noice/text/treesitter.lua
+++ b/lua/noice/text/treesitter.lua
@@ -19,7 +19,14 @@ function M.highlight_markdown(buf, injections)
   parser:parse()
 end
 
+function M.get_lang(ft)
+  return vim.treesitter.language.get_lang and vim.treesitter.language.get_lang(ft) or ft
+end
+
 function M.has_lang(lang)
+  if vim.treesitter.language.get_lang then
+    return vim.treesitter.language.get_lang(lang) ~= nil
+  end
   return vim.treesitter.language.require_language(lang, nil, true)
 end
 
@@ -30,11 +37,11 @@ end
 ---@param lang string treesitter language
 -- luacheck: no redefined
 function M.highlight(buf, ns, range, lang)
+  lang = M.get_lang(lang)
+
   buf = (buf == 0 or buf == nil) and vim.api.nvim_get_current_buf() or buf
   vim.fn.bufload(buf)
 
-  vim.treesitter.language.require_language(lang)
-
   -- we can't use a cached parser here since that could interfer with the existing parser of the buffer
   local LanguageTree = require("vim.treesitter.languagetree")
   local opts = { injections = { php = "", html = "" } }