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 Chakavian, Constructed and Corsican.

Chakavian

Chakavian or Čakavian is a South Slavic supradialect or language spoken by Croats along the Adriatic coast, in the historical regions of Dalmatia, Istria, Croatian Littoral and parts of coastal and southern Central Croatia, as well as by the Burgenland Croats as Burgenland Croatian in southeastern Austria, northwestern Hungary and southwestern Slovakia as well as few municipalities in southern Slovenia on the border with Croatia.

Chakavian appeared in full, within “Mižerja”, the Croatian entry for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Klapa s Mora performed “Mižerja”, finishing in 13th place in the semi final, with 38 points.

Constructed

A constructed language is a language whose phonology, grammar, orthography and vocabulary, instead of having developed naturally, are consciously devised for some purpose, which may include being devised for a work of fiction. A constructed language may also be referred to as an artificial, planned or invented language, or a fictional language.

Constructed language appeared in full, within “Sanomi”, the Belgian entry for the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest. Urban Trad performed “Sanomi”, finishing in 2nd place with 165 points.

Corsican

Corsican is a Romance language consisting of the continuum of the Tuscan Italo-Dalmatian dialects spoken on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, a territory of France and in the northern regions of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy.

Corsican first appeared within phrases of “Mama Corsica”, the French entry for the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest, before appearing in full, within “Sognu”, the French entry for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. Amaury Vassili performed “Sognu”, finishing in 15th place with 82 points.

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Author: Richard Taylor

Source: Eurovision Ireland, Wikipedia & YouTube/EBU/2000ESC2003