diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/Utilities.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/Utilities.php
index b592539d6c41d4ce322b32dfa791eea830a03c1c..38e6bc71c5988ae4fe9c95dbdf6d9a37dda42ae5 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/Utilities.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/Utilities.php
@@ -522,71 +522,10 @@ class SimpleSAML_Utilities {
 
 
 	/**
-	 * This function parses the Accept-Language http header and returns an associative array with each
-	 * language and the score for that language.
-	 *
-	 * If an language includes a region, then the result will include both the language with the region
-	 * and the language without the region.
-	 *
-	 * The returned array will be in the same order as the input.
-	 *
-	 * @return An associative array with each language and the score for that language.
+	 * @deprecated This method will be removed in SSP 2.0. Please use SimpleSAML\Utils\HTTP::getAcceptLanguage() instead.
 	 */
 	public static function getAcceptLanguage() {
-
-		if(!array_key_exists('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE', $_SERVER)) {
-			/* No Accept-Language header - return empty set. */
-			return array();
-		}
-
-		$languages = explode(',', strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']));
-
-		$ret = array();
-
-		foreach($languages as $l) {
-			$opts = explode(';', $l);
-
-			$l = trim(array_shift($opts)); /* The language is the first element.*/
-
-			$q = 1.0;
-
-			/* Iterate over all options, and check for the quality option. */
-			foreach($opts as $o) {
-				$o = explode('=', $o);
-				if(count($o) < 2) {
-					/* Skip option with no value. */
-					continue;
-				}
-
-				$name = trim($o[0]);
-				$value = trim($o[1]);
-
-				if($name === 'q') {
-					$q = (float)$value;
-				}
-			}
-
-			/* Remove the old key to ensure that the element is added to the end. */
-			unset($ret[$l]);
-
-			/* Set the quality in the result. */
-			$ret[$l] = $q;
-
-			if(strpos($l, '-')) {
-				/* The language includes a region part. */
-
-				/* Extract the language without the region. */
-				$l = explode('-', $l);
-				$l = $l[0];
-
-				/* Add this language to the result (unless it is defined already). */
-				if(!array_key_exists($l, $ret)) {
-					$ret[$l] = $q;
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-		return $ret;
+		return \SimpleSAML\Utils\HTTP::getAcceptLanguage();
 	}
 
 
diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/Utils/HTTP.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/Utils/HTTP.php
index 96577ff30bc7890baa414a0ad66de31bc8b6c4ba..e754b17bb105b7d3768b44ce02921c93890d6b59 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/Utils/HTTP.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/Utils/HTTP.php
@@ -207,6 +207,74 @@ class HTTP
     }
 
 
+    /**
+     * This function parses the Accept-Language HTTP header and returns an associative array with each language and the
+     * score for that language. If a language includes a region, then the result will include both the language with
+     * the region and the language without the region.
+     *
+     * The returned array will be in the same order as the input.
+     *
+     * @return array An associative array with each language and the score for that language.
+     *
+     * @author Olav Morken, UNINETT AS <olav.morken@uninett.no>
+     */
+    public static function getAcceptLanguage()
+    {
+        if (!array_key_exists('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE', $_SERVER)) {
+            // no Accept-Language header, return an empty set
+            return array();
+        }
+
+        $languages = explode(',', strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']));
+
+        $ret = array();
+
+        foreach ($languages as $l) {
+            $opts = explode(';', $l);
+
+            $l = trim(array_shift($opts)); // the language is the first element
+
+            $q = 1.0;
+
+            // iterate over all options, and check for the quality option
+            foreach ($opts as $o) {
+                $o = explode('=', $o);
+                if (count($o) < 2) {
+                    // skip option with no value
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                $name = trim($o[0]);
+                $value = trim($o[1]);
+
+                if ($name === 'q') {
+                    $q = (float) $value;
+                }
+            }
+
+            // remove the old key to ensure that the element is added to the end
+            unset($ret[$l]);
+
+            // set the quality in the result
+            $ret[$l] = $q;
+
+            if (strpos($l, '-')) {
+                // the language includes a region part
+
+                // extract the language without the region
+                $l = explode('-', $l);
+                $l = $l[0];
+
+                // add this language to the result (unless it is defined already)
+                if (!array_key_exists($l, $ret)) {
+                    $ret[$l] = $q;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return $ret;
+    }
+
+
     /**
      * Retrieve the base URL of the SimpleSAMLphp installation. The URL will always end with a '/'. For example:
      *      https://idp.example.org/simplesaml/
diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/XHTML/Template.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/XHTML/Template.php
index d259aebab116f1175ab94f9e9ecdc9afc9b38b0c..b47cc772c6da9369732c8e6b1803d38f8c202ca7 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/XHTML/Template.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/XHTML/Template.php
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_XHTML_Template {
 	 *         languages in the header were available.
 	 */
 	private function getHTTPLanguage() {
-		$languageScore = SimpleSAML_Utilities::getAcceptLanguage();
+		$languageScore = \SimpleSAML\Utils\HTTP::getAcceptLanguage();
 
 		/* For now we only use the default language map. We may use a configurable language map
 		 * in the future.