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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, 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

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Order Language First
appearance 		Country First performer First song
1 Greek 2003  Greece Nicolas Ganopoulos "Fili gia panta" (Φίλοι για πάντα)
2 Croatian  Croatia Dino Jelusić "Ti si moja prva ljubav"
3 Belarusian Belarus Volha Satsiuk "Tantsuy" (Танцуй)
4 Latvian  Latvia Dzintars Čīča "Tu esi vasarā"
5 Macedonian  Macedonia Marija and Viktorija "Ti ne me poznavaš" (Ти не ме познаваш)
6 Polish  Poland Kasia Żurawik "Coś mnie nosi"
7 Norwegian  Norway 2U "Sinnsykt gal forelsket"
8 Spanish  Spain Sergio "Desde el cielo"
9 Romanian  Romania Bubu "Tobele sunt viaţa mea"
10 Dutch  Belgium X!NK "De vriendschapsband"
11 English  United Kingdom Tom Morley "My Song for the World"
12 Danish  Denmark Anne Gadegaard "Arabiens drøm"
13 Swedish  Sweden The Honeypies "Stoppa mig"
14 Italian 2004   Switzerland Demis Mirarchi "Birichino"
15 French  France Thomas Pontier "Si on voulait bien"
16 Russian 2005  Russia Vladislav Krutskikh "Doroga k solnstu" (Дорога к солнцу)
17 Montenegrin  Serbia and Montenegro Filip Vučić "Ljubav pa fudbal" (Љубав па фудбал)
18 Portuguese 2006  Portugal Pedro Madeira "Deixa-me sentir"
19 Ukrainian  Ukraine Nazar Slyusarchuk "Khlopchyk Rock 'n' Roll" (Хлопчик рок н рол)
20 Serbian Serbia Neustrašivi učitelji stranih jezika "Učimo strane jezike" (Учимо стране језике)
21 German
22 Georgian 2007  Georgia Mari Romelashvili "Odelia Ranuni"
23 Armenian  Armenia Arevik "Erazanq" (Երազանք)
24 Bulgarian  Bulgaria Bon Bon "Bonbolandiya" (Бонболандия)
25 Lithuanian  Lithuania Lina Joy "Kai miestas snaudžia"
26 Maltese 2010  Malta Nicole Azzopardi "Knock Knock!....Boom! Boom!"
27 Azerbaijani 2012  Azerbaijan Omar Sultanov & Suada Alekberova "Girls and Boys (Dünya Sənindir)"
28 Hebrew  Israel Kids.il "Let the Music Win"
29 Albanian  Albania Igzidora Gjeta "Kam një këngë vetëm për ju"
30 Slovene 2014  Slovenia Ula Ložar "Nisi sam (Your Light)"
31 Irish 2015  Ireland Aimee Banks "Réalta na mara"
32 Latin
33 Turkish  Albania Mishela Rapo "Dambaje"
34 Kazakh 2018  Kazakhstan Daneliya Tuleshova "Ózińe sen" (Өзіңе сен)
35 Welsh  Wales Manw "Perta"
36 Japanese 2021  Netherlands Ayana "Mata Sugu Aō Ne" (またすぐ会おうね)
37 Brazilian Portuguese (dialect of Portuguese) 2022  Portugal Nicolas Alves "Anos 70"
38 Estonian 2023  Estonia Arhanna "Hoiame kokku"

Winners by language

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See also: List of Junior Eurovision Song Contest winners
  Russian (19.1%)
  French (14.3%)
  Armenian (9.5%)
  Polish (9.5%)
  Georgian (9.5%)
  English (9.5%)
  Croatian (4.8%)
  Spanish (4.8%)
  Dutch (4.8%)
  Ukrainian (4.8%)
  Italian (4.8%)
  None (4.8%)
Wins Language Years Countries
4 Russian 2005, 2006, 2007, 2017[1] Belarus, Russia
3 French 2020, 2022, 2023 France
Georgian 2011, 2016, 2024 Georgia
2 Armenian 2010, 2021 Armenia
Polish 2018,[1] 2019[1] Poland
English 2013, 2015 Malta
1 Croatian 2003 Croatia
Spanish 2004 Spain
Dutch 2009[1] Netherlands
Ukrainian 2012[1] Ukraine
Italian 2014[1] Italy

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f These songs were partially sung in English.
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