List of languages in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

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, 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 Germany one of the current participants in Junior Eurovision whose language appeared in the contest before they did.

Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Kazakh, 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	Template:Escyr	Template:Esc	Nicolas Ganopoulos	"Fili gia panta" (Φίλοι για πάντα)
2	Croatian		Template:Esc	Dino Jelusić	"Ti si moja prva ljubav"
3	Belarusian		Template:Flagdeco Template:Esccnty	Volha Satsiuk	"Tantsuy" (Танцуй)
4	Latvian		Template:Esc	Dzintars Čīča	"Tu esi vasarā"
5	Macedonian		Template:Esc	Marija and Viktorija	"Ti ne me poznavaš" (Ти не ме познаваш)
6	Polish		Template:Esc	Kasia Żurawik	"Coś mnie nosi"
7	Norwegian		Template:Esc	2U	"Sinnsykt gal forelsket"
8	Spanish		Template:Esc	Sergio	"Desde el cielo"
9	Romanian		Template:Esc	Bubu	"Tobele sunt viaţa mea"
10	Dutch		Template:Esc	X!NK	"De vriendschapsband"
11	English		Template:Esc	Tom Morley	"My Song for the World"
12	Danish		Template:Esc	Anne Gadegaard	"Arabiens drøm"
13	Swedish		Template:Esc	The Honeypies	"Stoppa mig"
14	Italian	Template:Escyr	Template:Esc	Demis Mirarchi	"Birichino"
15	French		Template:Esc	Thomas Pontier	"Si on voulait bien"
16	Russian	Template:Escyr	Template:Esc	Vladislav Krutskikh	"Doroga k solnstu" (Дорога к солнцу)
17	Montenegrin		Template:Esc	Filip Vučić	"Ljubav pa fudbal" (Љубав па фудбал)
18	Portuguese	Template:Escyr	Template:Esc	Pedro Madeira	"Deixa-me sentir"
19	Ukrainian		Template:Esc	Nazar Slyusarchuk	"Khlopchyk Rock 'n' Roll" (Хлопчик рок н рол)
20	Serbian		Template:Flagdeco Template:Esccnty	Neustrašivi učitelji stranih jezika	"Učimo strane jezike" (Учимо стране језике)
21	German
22	Georgian	Template:Escyr	Template:Esc	Mari Romelashvili	"Odelia Ranuni"
23	Armenian		Template:Esc	Arevik	"Erazanq" (Երազանք)
24	Bulgarian		Template:Esc	Bon Bon	"Bonbolandiya" (Бонболандия)
25	Lithuanian		Template:Esc	Lina Joy	"Kai miestas snaudžia"
26	Maltese	Template:Escyr	Template:Esc	Nicole Azzopardi	"Knock Knock!....Boom! Boom!"
27	Azerbaijani	Template:Escyr	Template:Esc	Omar Sultanov & Suada Alekberova	"Girls and Boys (Dünya Sənindir)"
28	Hebrew		Template:Esc	Kids.il	"Let the Music Win"
29	Albanian		Template:Esc	Igzidora Gjeta	"Kam një këngë vetëm për ju"
30	Slovene	Template:Escyr	Template:Esc	Ula Ložar	"Nisi sam (Your Light)"
31	Irish	Template:Escyr	Template:Esc	Aimee Banks	"Réalta na mara"
32	Latin
33	Turkish		Template:Esc	Mishela Rapo	"Dambaje"
34	Kazakh	Template:Escyr	Template:Esc	Daneliya Tuleshova	"Ózińe sen" (Өзіңе сен)
35	Welsh		Template:Esc	Manw	"Perta"
36	Japanese	Template:Escyr	Template:Esc	Ayana	"Mata Sugu Aō Ne" ()
37	Brazilian Portuguese (dialect of Portuguese)	Template:Escyr	Template:Esc	Nicolas Alves	"Anos 70"
38	Estonian	Template:Escyr	Template:Esc	Arhanna	"Hoiame kokku"

Winners by language

Wins	Language	Years	Countries
4	Russian	2005, 2006, 2007, 2017	Belarus, Russia
3	French	2020, 2022, 2023	France
	Georgian	2011, 2016, 2024	Georgia
2	Armenian	2010, 2021	Armenia
	Polish	2018, 2019	Poland
	English	2013, 2015	Malta
1	Croatian	2003	Croatia
	Spanish	2004	Spain
	Dutch	2009	Netherlands
	Ukrainian	2012	Ukraine
	Italian	2014	Italy

See also

• List of languages in the Eurovision Song Contest