List of languages in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

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The following is a list of languages used in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest since the contest's inception in 2003, which includes the year, country, song and artist through which each language made its debut. There is a rule in place that stipulates that any given song must be sung in one of the national languages of the country it represents. However, it is permissible for a song to contain lyrics in other languages on top of this.

The songs that contained the most languages were the Serbian entry in 2006 and the Albanian entry in 2015, both with eight. The Serbian song, "Učimo strane jezike", actually only contains two lines (found in its chorus) in Serbian, while the rest is sung in the English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese languages. Albania's "Dambaje" is sung in Albanian, German, French, Spanish, English, Italian, Slovene, an Imaginary Language, and Turkish, the last of which made its debut in Junior Eurovision. Germany's debut entry in 2020, "Stronger With You" was the first Junior Eurovision entry mostly in German, making them one of the only current participants in Junior Eurovision whose language appeared in the contest before they did.

Japanese, Kazakh, Latin, and Welsh have been featured in songs of the Junior contest, but they have never been used in songs of the senior Eurovision Song Contest (although a Japanese mantra was sung during the Azerbaijani entry of the cancelled Eurovision Song Contest in 2020).

Languages[]

Order	Language	First appearance	Country	First performer	First song
1	Greek	2003	Greece		"Fili gia panta" (Φίλοι για πάντα)
2	Croatian		Croatia	Dino Jelusić	"Ti si moja prva ljubav"
3	Belarusian		Belarus		"Tantsuy" (Танцуй)
4	Latvian		Latvia	Dzintars Čīča	"Tu esi vasarā"
5	Macedonian		Macedonia		"Ti ne me poznavaš" (Ти не ме познаваш)
6	Polish		Poland		"Coś mnie nosi"
7	Norwegian		Norway		"Sinnsykt gal forelsket"
8	Spanish		Spain		"Desde el cielo"
9	Romanian		Romania	Bubu	"Tobele sunt viaţa mea"
10	Dutch		Belgium	X!NK	"De vriendschapsband"
11	English		United Kingdom		"My Song for the World"
12	Danish		Denmark	Anne Gadegaard	"Arabiens drøm"
13	Swedish		Sweden		"Stoppa mig"
14	Italian	2004	Switzerland		"Birichino"
15	French		France		"Si on voulait bien"
16	Russian	2005	Russia		"Doroga k solnstu" (Дорога к солнцу)
17	Montenegrin		Serbia and Montenegro		"Ljubav pa fudbal" (Љубав па фудбал)
18	Portuguese	2006	Portugal	Pedro Madeira	"Deixa-me sentir"
19	Ukrainian		Ukraine		"Khlopchyk Rock 'n' Roll" (Хлопчик рок н рол)
20	Serbian		Serbia		"Učimo strane jezike" (Учимо стране језике)
21	German
22	Georgian	2007	Georgia		"Odelia Ranuni"
23	Armenian		Armenia		"Erazanq" (Երազանք)
24	Bulgarian		Bulgaria		"Bonbolandiya" (Бонболандия)
25	Lithuanian		Lithuania		"Kai miestas snaudžia"
26	Imaginary language	2008	Georgia	Bzikebi	"Bzz.."
27	Maltese	2010	Malta	Nicole Azzopardi	"Knock Knock!....Boom! Boom!"
28	Azerbaijani	2012	Azerbaijan		"Girls and Boys (Dünya Sənindir)"
29	Hebrew		Israel	Kids.il	"Let the Music Win"
30	Albanian		Albania		"Kam një këngë vetëm për ju"
31	Slovene	2014	Slovenia	Ula Ložar	"Nisi sam (Your Light)"
32	Irish	2015	Ireland	Aimee Banks	"Réalta na mara"
33	Latin
34	Turkish		Albania	Mishela Rapo	"Dambaje"
35	Kazakh	2018	Kazakhstan	Daneliya Tuleshova	"Ózińe sen" (Өзіңе сен)
36	Welsh		Wales	Manw	"Perta"
37	Japanese	2021	Netherlands	Ayana	"Mata Sugu Aō Ne" (またすぐ会おうね)

Winners by language[]

See also[]

• List of languages in the Eurovision Song Contest

Notes[]