diff --git a/app/scripts/components/corpus-updates.ts b/app/scripts/components/corpus-updates.ts
index 737321f7c..305dd128d 100644
--- a/app/scripts/components/corpus-updates.ts
+++ b/app/scripts/components/corpus-updates.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import angular, { IScope } from "angular"
 import moment from "moment"
 import settings from "@/settings"
 import { html } from "@/util"
-import { LangMap } from "@/i18n/types"
+import { LangString } from "@/i18n/types"
 
 export default angular.module("korpApp").component("corpusUpdates", {
     template: html`
@@ -75,5 +75,5 @@ type CorpusUpdatesScope = IScope & {
 
 type Corpus = {
     info: { Updated: string }
-    title: LangMap | string
+    title: LangString
 }
diff --git a/app/scripts/i18n/index.ts b/app/scripts/i18n/index.ts
index 19e898e8b..3d3a3177a 100644
--- a/app/scripts/i18n/index.ts
+++ b/app/scripts/i18n/index.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import isObject from "lodash/isObject"
 import settings from "@/settings"
 import { getService } from "@/util"
-import type { LangLocMap, LangMap, LocLangMap, LocMap } from "@/i18n/types"
+import type { LangLocMap, LangString, LocLangMap, LocMap } from "@/i18n/types"
 
 /** Get the current UI language. */
 export function getLang(): string {
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ export function loc(key: string, lang?: string) {
  * @param lang The code of the language to translate to. Defaults to the global current language.
  * @returns The translated string, or undefined if no translation is found.
  */
-export function locObj(map: LangMap | string, lang?: string): string | undefined {
+export function locObj(map: LangString, lang?: string): string | undefined {
     if (!map) return undefined
     if (typeof map == "string") return map
 
diff --git a/app/scripts/kwic_download.ts b/app/scripts/kwic_download.ts
index eb49670e4..257c19077 100644
--- a/app/scripts/kwic_download.ts
+++ b/app/scripts/kwic_download.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import moment from "moment"
 import CSV from "comma-separated-values/csv"
 import { locObj } from "@/i18n"
 import { type ApiKwic, type KorpQueryParams } from "@/backend/kwic-proxy"
-import { LangMap } from "./i18n/types"
+import { LangString } from "./i18n/types"
 
 // This is what is returned by massageData in kwic.js
 type Row = ApiKwic | LinkedKwic | CorpusHeading
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ type LinkedKwic = {
 }
 
 type CorpusHeading = {
-    newCorpus: LangMap | string
+    newCorpus: LangString
     noContext?: boolean
 }
 
diff --git a/app/scripts/settings/config.types.ts b/app/scripts/settings/config.types.ts
index 747305482..eaf70a8e5 100644
--- a/app/scripts/settings/config.types.ts
+++ b/app/scripts/settings/config.types.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * @format
  */
 
-import { Labeled, LangMap, LangString } from "@/i18n/types"
+import { Labeled, LangString } from "@/i18n/types"
 
 export type Config = {
     attributes: {