diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/Plugin/EntityReferenceSelection/DefaultSelection.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/Plugin/EntityReferenceSelection/DefaultSelection.php
index ac5da7a..53fe964 100644
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/Plugin/EntityReferenceSelection/DefaultSelection.php
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/Plugin/EntityReferenceSelection/DefaultSelection.php
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 use Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface;
 use Drupal\Core\Plugin\ContainerFactoryPluginInterface;
 use Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface;
+use Drupal\Core\StringTranslation\TranslatableMarkup;
 use Drupal\user\EntityOwnerInterface;
 use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
 
@@ -269,13 +270,13 @@ public function buildConfigurationForm(array $form, FormStateInterface $form_sta
         // Note that the count here is after one element has been popped off,
         // so we're detecting if the list originally had additional elements.
         if (count($list) > 0 ) {
-          $options[$machine_name] = (string) $this->t('@label|… [@machine_name]', $arguments);
+          $options[$machine_name] = $this->t('@label|… [@machine_name]', $arguments);
         }
         else {
-          $options[$machine_name] = (string) $this->t('@label [@machine_name]', $arguments);
+          $options[$machine_name] = $this->t('@label [@machine_name]', $arguments);
         }
       }
-      asort($options);
+      uasort($options, DefaultSelection::compareTranslatables);
 
       $form['sort']['field'] = [
         '#type' => 'select',
@@ -523,4 +524,22 @@ protected function reAlterQuery(AlterableInterface $query, $tag, $base_table) {
     $query->alterMetaData = $old_metadata;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Calculates the sort order of translatable markup, without changing them.
+   *
+   * @param \Drupal\Core\StringTranslation\TranslatableMarkup $a
+   *   First translatable markup object to compare.
+   * @param \Drupal\Core\StringTranslation\TranslatableMarkup $b
+   *   Second translatable markup object to compare.
+   *
+   * @return int
+   *   A number (respectively) greater than zero, zero, or less than zero if
+   *   $a is greater than, equal to, or less than $b (case sensitive).
+   */
+  public static function compareTranslatables(TranslatableMarkup $a, TranslatableMarkup $b) {
+    $a = (string) clone $a;
+    $b = (string) clone $b;
+    return strcmp($a, $b);
+  }
+
 }