diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9b80a3ae4d..2146b1af3b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
   - Use generated Typescript types via client:codegen [#1016](https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-tooling/pull/1016)
   - Remove default `--tag=current` for some client commands that used it [#1062](https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-tooling/pull/1062)
   - Add missing dependency `@oclif/errors` [#1068](https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-tooling/pull/1068)
+  - The keyword "type" is escaped when generating scala.js via client:codegen [#1066](https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-tooling/pull/1066)
 
 # `apollo@2.5.3`
 
diff --git a/packages/apollo-codegen-scala/src/language.ts b/packages/apollo-codegen-scala/src/language.ts
index 9392714290..d8f49864b3 100644
--- a/packages/apollo-codegen-scala/src/language.ts
+++ b/packages/apollo-codegen-scala/src/language.ts
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ const reservedKeywords = new Set([
   "trait",
   "true",
   "try",
+  "type",
   "until",
   "val",
   "var",