diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-language/release-please-config.json b/packages/google-cloud-language/release-please-config.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1744dcba19bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-language/release-please-config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+    "$schema": 
+"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
+    "packages": {},
+    "release-type": "python",
+    "extra-files": [
+        "**/gapic_version.py",
+        {
+            "type": "json",
+            "path": "samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata*.json",
+            "jsonpath": "$.clientLibrary.version"
+        }
+    ],
+    "plugins": [
+        {
+            "type": "sentence-case"
+        }
+    ],
+    "initial-version": "0.1.0"
+}
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-language/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_language_v1.json b/packages/google-cloud-language/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_language_v1.json
index f633a498d5a8..936a8b703ba1 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-language/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_language_v1.json
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-language/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_language_v1.json
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
       }
     ],
     "language": "PYTHON",
-    "name": "google-cloud-language"
+    "name": "google-cloud-language",
+    "version": "0.1.0"
   },
   "snippets": [
     {
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-language/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_language_v1beta2.json b/packages/google-cloud-language/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_language_v1beta2.json
index 2184122a94dc..a4368f2d433a 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-language/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_language_v1beta2.json
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-language/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_language_v1beta2.json
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
       }
     ],
     "language": "PYTHON",
-    "name": "google-cloud-language"
+    "name": "google-cloud-language",
+    "version": "0.1.0"
   },
   "snippets": [
     {