New posts (of custom type) appear languageless despite choice

Hello again.
I have a custom post type called links, which don’t have an editor, just the title, a url field(text field) and a description field(plain text area). When I make a new one and choose a language from the dropdown, or let the default stay, it removes the language when saving. When you look at the posts list in the admin panel, it is just blank instead of the plus and the pencil sign adjacent to it. When you try to make a translation, the original is not visible in the dropdown, so you can’t do that either. It does allow me however to assign a language to them if I go to the polylang menu and click the red assign default language to all posts without language option. Any Ideas? Could it have to do with these custom types not having the regular editor field?

also, do you accept donations? I’d like to help keep this plugin free for everyone

https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/