diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/dependency_collector.rb b/Library/Homebrew/dependency_collector.rb
index cb45c2f490..b16a9653f6 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/dependency_collector.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/dependency_collector.rb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ require "set"
 class DependencyCollector
   # Define the languages that we can handle as external dependencies.
   LANGUAGE_MODULES = Set[
-    :lua, :perl, :python, :python3, :ruby
+    :lua, :lua51, :perl, :python, :python3, :ruby
   ].freeze
 
   CACHE = {}