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 Aramaic, Armenian and Azerbaijani.

Aramaic

Aramaic is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, Sinai, southeastern Anatolia, and Eastern Arabia, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.

Aramaic appeared within phrases of “Doomsday Blue”, the Irish entry for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. Bambie Thug performed “Doomsday Blue”, finishing in 6th place with 278 points.

Armenian

Armenian is an Indo-European language and the sole member of the independent branch of the Armenian language family. It is the native language of the Armenian people and the official language of Armenia. Historically spoken in the Armenian highlands, today Armenian is also widely spoken throughout the Armenian diaspora.

Armenian first appeared within phrases of “Anytime You Need”, the Armenian entry for the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, before appearing within lines of “Jan Jan”, the Armenian entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Inga & Anush performed “Jan Jan”, finishing in 10th place with 92 points.

Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani, also referred to as Azerbaijani Turkic or Azerbaijani Turkish, is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch. It is spoken primarily by the Azerbaijani people, who live mainly in the Republic of Azerbaijan, where the North Azerbaijani variety is spoken, while Iranian Azerbaijanis in the Azerbaijan region of Iran, speak the South Azerbaijani variety. Azerbaijani is the only official language in the Republic of Azerbaijan and one of the 14 official languages of Dagestan, but it does not have official status in Iran, where the majority of Iranian Azerbaijani people live. Azerbaijani is also spoken to lesser varying degrees in Azerbaijani communities of Georgia and Turkey and by diaspora communities, primarily in Europe and North America.

Azerbaijani first appeared within phrases of “Love Unlimited”, the Bulgarian entry for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, before appearing within lines of “Özünlə apar”, the Azerbaijani entry for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. Fahree & Ilkin Dovlatov performed “Özünlə apar”, finishing in 14th place in the semi final, with 11 points.

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Author: Richard Taylor

Source: Eurovision Ireland, Wikipedia & YouTube/EBU