This does not work, but we can check the length:
selectedLangItem = $('#userLang option[value="nl_US"]').length
0
selectedLangItem = $('#userLang option[value="en_US"]') .length
1
selectedLangItem = $('#userLang option[value="'+selectedLanguage+'"]')
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