diff --git a/src/NodaWikidataFetcher.php b/src/NodaWikidataFetcher.php
index 74411b2..f87b0e1 100644
--- a/src/NodaWikidataFetcher.php
+++ b/src/NodaWikidataFetcher.php
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ final class NodaWikidataFetcher {
         $languagesToFetch = $wikilinks = [];
         foreach ($checkagainstLanguage as $lang) {
 
-            if (empty($data['labels'][$lang])) {
+            if (empty($data['labels']) || empty($data['labels'][$lang])) {
                 continue;
             }
 
diff --git a/tests/NodaWikidataFetcherTest.php b/tests/NodaWikidataFetcherTest.php
index f23d5bb..ad9e5fc 100644
--- a/tests/NodaWikidataFetcherTest.php
+++ b/tests/NodaWikidataFetcherTest.php
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ require_once __DIR__ . '/../../MDMysqli/test_connections.conf.php';
 final class NodaWikidataFetcherTest extends TestCase {
 
     // Test for getting translations: Telugu
-    private const TEST_LANG = 'te';
+    public const TEST_LANG = 'te';
 
     /**
      * Test to check whether the HTML page is correctly generated.