I have implemented Zend_Navigation, Zend_Translate in my application. The routing is setup in Bootstrap.php like below.

$fc = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
    	$zl=new Zend_Locale();
    	Zend_Registry::set('Zend_Locale',$zl);
    	$lang=$zl->getLanguage().'_'.$zl->getRegion();
    	$router = $fc->getRouter();
    	$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(':lang/:module/:controller/:action/*', 
    	array(
    'lang'=>$lang, 'module'=>'default', 'controller'=>'index', 'action'=>'index'
));
$router->addRoute('default', $route);
$fc->setRouter($router);
$fc->registerPlugin( new Plugin_LanguageSetup());

in LaunguageSetup Plugin i have defined the dispatchLoopStartup method to do the checking of the language param

    public function dispatchLoopStartup(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request) {
        $this->createLangUrl($request);
        $this->_language = $request->getParam('lang');
        if ((!isset($this->_language)) || !in_array($this->_language, $this->_languagesArray)) {
            $this->_language = 'en_US';
            $request->setParam('lang', 'en_US');
        }
        $file = APPLICATION_PATH.$this->_directory.$this->_language.'.csv';
        $translate = new Zend_Translate('csv', $file, $this->_language);
        Zend_Registry::set('Zend_Translate', $translate);
        $zl = Zend_Registry::get('Zend_Locale');
        $zl->setLocale($this->_language);
        Zend_Registry::set('Zend_Locale', $zl);


//        $fc = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
//        $router = $fc->getRouter();
//        $route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(':lang/:module/:controller/:action/*', array(
//            'lang'=>$this->_language, 'module'=>'default', 'controller'=>'index', 'action'=>'index'
//        ));
//        $router->addRoute('default', $route);
//        $fc->setRouter($router);

    }

What happen is the language always have the default value, the 'lang' param never default lang value in route, even if i type it in the address bar manually i.e /en_US/module/controller/action/ It always get revert back to the default Zend_locale();

Only way i can fix it is to setup the route again in the plugin and inject a correct language value as default. Any Idea why?