diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.37 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.37
index f8aa0bc5beb..3d38b4fc428 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.37
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.37
@@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ because of Phabricator reports.
 * (T284044) Added language support for Carpathian Romani (rmc).
 * (T286460) Added language support for Gun (guw, Gungbe).
 * (T287345) Added language support for Baoulé (bci).
+* (T25216) Started the renaming of the language code for Norman from nrm to
+  nrf.
 
 === Breaking changes in 1.37 ===
 * The Revision class, hard deprecated in 1.35, was removed entirely. As
diff --git a/languages/messages/MessagesNrm.php b/languages/messages/MessagesNrm.php
index 6cb8c4767f8..132b37bfd51 100644
--- a/languages/messages/MessagesNrm.php
+++ b/languages/messages/MessagesNrm.php
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@
  *
  */
 
-$fallback = 'fr';
+$fallback = 'nrf, fr';