List of languages in the Eurovision Song Contest
This is a list of languages in the Euro Vision Song Contest since the first edition in 1956 in the finals and, since 2004, in the semi-finals.
Rule Changes
- Between 1956 and 1965 there were no rules governing the languages in which a song was sung.
- Between 1966 and 1972, the songs had to be sung in one of the official languages of a country.
- Starting in 1977, the participants had to sing the songs back into the local language. The language rule was to ESC 1998. Since Germany and Belgium had already completed their 1977 contributions before the entry into force of the regulation, the two songs were allowed to be carried forward to English. Many of the contributions that were sung in the official languages , possessed an English title.
- As of 1999, the languages allowed are again chosen at random. Since then, there were some songs that were sung in both the national language and in another language.
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- By 2013, three countries have never sung in their ( - s) Official language (s ): Belarus has never used Belarusian or Russian, Azerbaijan has never sung in Azerbaijani and Monaco never monegassisch that is next to French the official language in Monaco used.
- A common language combination is the singing of a song in an official language, and the English language.
- The Belgian contributions for 2003 " Sanomi " and 2008 " O Julissi ", and the Netherlands with " Amambanda " from the year 2006 have been sung in the constructed language.
- The post with the most languages was " It's Just a Game", of the Bendik Singers for Norway during 1973. He was recited in English and French, with lyrics in Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, Irish, Serbo-Croatian, Hebrew, Finnish swedish and norwegian.
- Bulgaria has contribution in 2012, " Love Unlimited " a Bulgarian text, with sentences to Turkish, Greek, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, French, Romani, Italian, Azerbaijani, Arabic and English.
Languages and their first occurrence
Source: The Diggiloo Thrush