diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/ar/dashboard.json b/library/i18n/locales/ar/dashboard.json
index edd0999c2..f1b3459d0 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/ar/dashboard.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/ar/dashboard.json
@@ -76,5 +76,6 @@
   "people_committed": "الأشخاص الملتزمون",
   "people_praying": "الأشخاص المصلّون",
   "selected_first": "المحدَّدة أولاً",
-  "selected_first_hint": "رفع الشعوب المحدَّدة إلى الأعلى مع الإبقاء على ترتيب الأعمدة"
+  "selected_first_hint": "رفع الشعوب المحدَّدة إلى الأعلى مع الإبقاء على ترتيب الأعمدة",
+  "n_shown": "{n} معروض"
 }
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/de/dashboard.json b/library/i18n/locales/de/dashboard.json
index 71265b477..42c446f13 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/de/dashboard.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/de/dashboard.json
@@ -76,5 +76,6 @@
   "people_committed": "Verbindlich zugesagte Personen",
   "people_praying": "Betende Personen",
   "selected_first": "Ausgewählte zuerst",
-  "selected_first_hint": "Die ausgewählten Volksgruppen nach oben holen, die Spaltensortierung bleibt erhalten"
+  "selected_first_hint": "Die ausgewählten Volksgruppen nach oben holen, die Spaltensortierung bleibt erhalten",
+  "n_shown": "{n} angezeigt"
 }
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/en/dashboard.json b/library/i18n/locales/en/dashboard.json
index e606331ad..5c14c0a65 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/en/dashboard.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/en/dashboard.json
@@ -76,5 +76,6 @@
   "people_committed": "People committed",
   "people_praying": "People praying",
   "selected_first": "Selected first",
-  "selected_first_hint": "Float the selected people groups to the top, keeping your column sort"
+  "selected_first_hint": "Float the selected people groups to the top, keeping your column sort",
+  "n_shown": "{n} shown"
 }
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/es/dashboard.json b/library/i18n/locales/es/dashboard.json
index 1ff973162..0e62f7edd 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/es/dashboard.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/es/dashboard.json
@@ -76,5 +76,6 @@
   "people_committed": "Personas comprometidas",
   "people_praying": "Personas que oran",
   "selected_first": "Los seleccionados primero",
-  "selected_first_hint": "Llevar arriba los grupos de personas seleccionados, manteniendo el orden de las columnas"
+  "selected_first_hint": "Llevar arriba los grupos de personas seleccionados, manteniendo el orden de las columnas",
+  "n_shown": "{n} mostrados"
 }
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/fr/dashboard.json b/library/i18n/locales/fr/dashboard.json
index 3258a0b77..cb69c14be 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/fr/dashboard.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/fr/dashboard.json
@@ -76,5 +76,6 @@
   "people_committed": "Personnes engagées",
   "people_praying": "Personnes qui prient",
   "selected_first": "La sélection en premier",
-  "selected_first_hint": "Faire remonter les groupes de personnes sélectionnés, en conservant le tri des colonnes"
+  "selected_first_hint": "Faire remonter les groupes de personnes sélectionnés, en conservant le tri des colonnes",
+  "n_shown": "{n} affichés"
 }
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/hi/dashboard.json b/library/i18n/locales/hi/dashboard.json
index 3b364d1bc..9ab951d37 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/hi/dashboard.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/hi/dashboard.json
@@ -76,5 +76,6 @@
   "people_committed": "प्रतिबद्ध लोग",
   "people_praying": "प्रार्थना करने वाले लोग",
   "selected_first": "चयनित पहले",
-  "selected_first_hint": "चयनित जनसमूहों को ऊपर लाएँ, आपका कॉलम क्रम बनाए रखते हुए"
+  "selected_first_hint": "चयनित जनसमूहों को ऊपर लाएँ, आपका कॉलम क्रम बनाए रखते हुए",
+  "n_shown": "{n} दिखाए गए"
 }
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/it/dashboard.json b/library/i18n/locales/it/dashboard.json
index 6d419ba50..38962bbe7 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/it/dashboard.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/it/dashboard.json
@@ -76,5 +76,6 @@
   "people_committed": "Persone impegnate",
   "people_praying": "Persone che pregano",
   "selected_first": "Prima i selezionati",
-  "selected_first_hint": "Porta in alto i gruppi di persone selezionati, mantenendo l’ordinamento delle colonne"
+  "selected_first_hint": "Porta in alto i gruppi di persone selezionati, mantenendo l’ordinamento delle colonne",
+  "n_shown": "{n} mostrati"
 }
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/pt/dashboard.json b/library/i18n/locales/pt/dashboard.json
index 645a833a5..58e608c35 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/pt/dashboard.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/pt/dashboard.json
@@ -76,5 +76,6 @@
   "people_committed": "Pessoas comprometidas",
   "people_praying": "Pessoas a orar",
   "selected_first": "Os selecionados primeiro",
-  "selected_first_hint": "Trazer para cima os grupos de pessoas selecionados, mantendo a ordenação das colunas"
+  "selected_first_hint": "Trazer para cima os grupos de pessoas selecionados, mantendo a ordenação das colunas",
+  "n_shown": "{n} apresentados"
 }
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/ro/dashboard.json b/library/i18n/locales/ro/dashboard.json
index d823f4e01..67edd6723 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/ro/dashboard.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/ro/dashboard.json
@@ -76,5 +76,6 @@
   "people_committed": "Persoane angajate",
   "people_praying": "Persoane care se roagă",
   "selected_first": "Cele selectate primele",
-  "selected_first_hint": "Ridică grupurile de oameni selectate în partea de sus, păstrând sortarea coloanelor"
+  "selected_first_hint": "Ridică grupurile de oameni selectate în partea de sus, păstrând sortarea coloanelor",
+  "n_shown": "{n} afișate"
 }
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/ru/dashboard.json b/library/i18n/locales/ru/dashboard.json
index 39f01f844..851688878 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/ru/dashboard.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/ru/dashboard.json
@@ -76,5 +76,6 @@
   "people_committed": "Взявшие обязательство",
   "people_praying": "Молящиеся",
   "selected_first": "Выбранные сначала",
-  "selected_first_hint": "Поднять выбранные народы наверх, сохранив сортировку столбцов"
+  "selected_first_hint": "Поднять выбранные народы наверх, сохранив сортировку столбцов",
+  "n_shown": "{n} показано"
 }
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/zh/dashboard.json b/library/i18n/locales/zh/dashboard.json
index 36f9583e9..17727a3c8 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/zh/dashboard.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/zh/dashboard.json
@@ -76,5 +76,6 @@
   "people_committed": "已承诺的人数",
   "people_praying": "祷告的人数",
   "selected_first": "所选优先",
-  "selected_first_hint": "将所选民族置顶，同时保留您的列排序"
+  "selected_first_hint": "将所选民族置顶，同时保留您的列排序",
+  "n_shown": "显示 {n} 个"
 }
diff --git a/plugin-designs/big-picture/big-picture.vue b/plugin-designs/big-picture/big-picture.vue
index a3fb020d5..669ce5b89 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/big-picture/big-picture.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/big-picture/big-picture.vue
@@ -112,7 +112,23 @@ watch(textDir, reflectDir)
 
 // The host's people-group LIST (library/lists/), handed to both children as the only key of their
 // profile-config, so nothing else about them changes. Absent = the default list.
-const listConfig = computed(() => (config.value.list ? JSON.stringify({ list: config.value.list }) : ''))
+// ★ THE LOCALE TRAVELS WITH THE LIST (rega, row 47: big-picture rendered 31 Arabic text nodes
+// through profile-config against 79 through ?lang=, and check:host-locale-contract measured 402
+// against 888). This handed each child ONLY the list, so the one documented channel a partner has
+// for asking a nested element to speak Arabic — its profile-config — arrived empty of any locale.
+// setRuntimeLocale above covers everything that reads tStatic, which is why the headline and much
+// of the chrome were already right; it does not cover a child that reads its own profile-config.
+// Threading it costs nothing and is what ProfileLoader would have done had one existed beneath this
+// composite, which is exactly the (C) failure mode: a composite that BAKES its children in has no
+// ProfileLoader under it, so it must do that job itself.
+// This is ONE identified gap, not a claim to have closed the whole 402/888 difference; rega
+// re-measures.
+const listConfig = computed(() => {
+  const cfg = {}
+  if (config.value.list) cfg.list = config.value.list
+  if (hostLang.value) cfg.lang = hostLang.value
+  return Object.keys(cfg).length ? JSON.stringify(cfg) : ''
+})
 
 const prayBaseUrl  = computed(() => config.value.prayBaseUrl  || '')
 const languageCode = computed(() => config.value.languageCode || '')
diff --git a/plugin-designs/big-picture/src/components/BpResearchHeader.vue b/plugin-designs/big-picture/src/components/BpResearchHeader.vue
index 9d43f9fc4..66d246cbe 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/big-picture/src/components/BpResearchHeader.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/big-picture/src/components/BpResearchHeader.vue
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ onMounted(loadOptions)
         class="rh-count"
         role="status"
         aria-live="polite"
-      >{{ count }} shown</span>
+      >{{ (L('n_shown', '') || tStatic('dashboard.n_shown') || '{n} shown').replace('{n}', count) }}</span>
     </div>
 
     <!-- SHARED SearchBar on top (replaces the hand-rolled <input type="search">). -->