diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 5af3e121a8c..30d1acb4973 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Properly detect languages on Github
-*.h linguist-language=cpp
-*.inc linguist-language=cpp
+*.h linguist-language=C++
+*.inc linguist-language=C++
 thirdparty/* linguist-vendored
 
 # Normalize EOL for all files that Git considers text files