diff --git a/lib/Cake/Routing/Route/RedirectRoute.php b/lib/Cake/Routing/Route/RedirectRoute.php
index a4304f411..f0ac73f44 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Routing/Route/RedirectRoute.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Routing/Route/RedirectRoute.php
@@ -80,6 +80,13 @@ class RedirectRoute extends CakeRoute {
 		}
 		if (isset($this->options['persist']) && is_array($redirect)) {
 			$redirect += array('named' => $params['named'], 'pass' => $params['pass'], 'url' => array());
+			if (is_array($this->options['persist'])) {
+				foreach ($this->options['persist'] as $elem) {
+					if (isset($params[$elem])) {
+						$redirect[$elem] = $params[$elem];
+					}
+				}
+			}
 			$redirect = Router::reverse($redirect);
 		}
 		$status = 301;
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Routing/Route/RedirectRouteTest.php b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Routing/Route/RedirectRouteTest.php
index a9e21e9c3..4d32c054a 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Routing/Route/RedirectRouteTest.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Routing/Route/RedirectRouteTest.php
@@ -103,6 +103,22 @@ class RedirectRouteTest extends CakeTestCase {
 		$result = $route->parse('/my_controllers/do_something/passme/named:param');
 		$header = $route->response->header();
 		$this->assertEquals(Router::url('/tags/add', true), $header['Location']);
+
+		$route = new RedirectRoute('/:lang/my_controllers', array('controller' => 'tags', 'action' => 'add'), array('lang' => '(nl|en)', 'persist' => array('lang')));
+		$route->stop = false;
+		$route->response = $this->getMock('CakeResponse', array('_sendHeader'));
+		$result = $route->parse('/nl/my_controllers/');
+		$header = $route->response->header();
+		$this->assertEquals(Router::url('/tags/add/lang:nl', true), $header['Location']);
+
+		Router::$routes = array(); // reset default routes
+		Router::connect('/:lang/preferred_controllers', array('controller' => 'tags', 'action' => 'add'), array('lang' => '(nl|en)', 'persist' => array('lang')));
+		$route = new RedirectRoute('/:lang/my_controllers', array('controller' => 'tags', 'action' => 'add'), array('lang' => '(nl|en)', 'persist' => array('lang')));
+		$route->stop = false;
+		$route->response = $this->getMock('CakeResponse', array('_sendHeader'));
+		$result = $route->parse('/nl/my_controllers/');
+		$header = $route->response->header();
+		$this->assertEquals(Router::url('/nl/preferred_controllers', true), $header['Location']);
 	}
 
 }