This year, the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest featured a record breaking twenty languages. Eurovision Ireland will be looking at all the languages that have been performed at the Contest, since 1956, in our latest #AtoZ. Today, we continue the series with Ancient Greek, Andalusian Spanish and Arabic.

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

Ancient Greek appeared within phrases of “Pia prosefhi”, the Greek entry for the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest. Elina Konstantopoulou performed “Pia prosefhi”, finishing in 12th place with 68 points.

Andalusian Spanish

The Andalusian dialects of Spanish are spoken in Andalusia, Ceuta, Melilla and Gibraltar. They include perhaps the most distinct of the southern variants of peninsular Spanish, differing in many respects from northern varieties in a number of phonological, morphological and lexical features.

Andalusian Spanish appeared within phrases of “Bloody Mary”, the Spanish entry for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. Las Ketchup performed “Bloody Mary”, finishing in 21st place with 18 points.

Arabic

Arabic, is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

Arabic appeared in full, within “Bitakat Hob”, the Moroccan entry for the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest. Samira Bensaïd performed “Bitakat Hob”, finishing in 18th place with 7 points.

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Author: Richard Taylor

Source: Eurovision Ireland, Wikipedia & YouTube/escLIVEmuscic1/EBU