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I wasn't aware of $LANGUAGE until now - it does seem to provide similar functionality.
Note that both Firefox and Chromium use translations for setting this, and we've copied the values set by their own translators. There seems to be quite some differences between these and the values set in $LANGUAGE. For example, the Accept-Language header for Lithuanian has Russian and Polish as fallbacks (in both Firefox and Chromium), but not in the $LANGUAGE environment variable. Also, whilst they all have some form of English as a fallback, some of them express a preferences for British English or American English where $LANGUAGE doesn't.
I'm not sure how much this matters...