The wiki/includes/auth/TemporaryPasswordPrimaryAuthenticationProvider.php not use the language that the request was created in
The following at lines 445-446
$userLanguage = $user->getOption( 'language' ); $subjectMessage = wfMessage( 'createaccount-title' )->inLanguage( $userLanguage );
but the request approved email is being issued in English only - the wiki's language.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:W1yef4cusengmcb2 on Support Desk for original description of the problem