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 Crimean Tatar, Croatian and Czech.

Crimean Tatar

Crimean Tatar, also called Crimean, is a Turkic language spoken in Crimea and the Crimean Tatar diasporas of Uzbekistan, Romania, Turkey and Bulgaria, as well as small communities in the United States and Canada. It should not be confused with Tatar, spoken in Tatarstan and adjacent regions in Russia.

Crimean Tatar appeared within lines of “1944”, the Ukrainian entry for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. Jamala performed “1944”, finishing in 1st place with 534 points.

Croatian

Croatian is the standard variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Croats. It is the national official language and literary standard of Croatia, one of the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the Serbian province of Vojvodina, the European Union and a recognised minority language elsewhere in Serbia and other neighbouring countries.

Croatian appeared in full, within “Don’t Ever Cry”, the Croatian entry for the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest. Put performed “Don’t Ever Cry”, finishing in 15th place with 31 points.

Czech

Czech, historically known as Bohemian, is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. Spoken by over 12 million people including second language speakers, it serves as the official language of the Czech Republic. Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of high mutual intelligibility, as well as to Polish to a lesser degree. Czech is a fusional language with a rich system of morphology and relatively flexible word order. Its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by Latin and German.

Czech appeared in full, within “Malá dáma”, the Czech entry for the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. Kabát performed “Malá dáma”, finishing in 28th place in the semi final, with 1 point.

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Author: Richard Taylor

Source: Eurovision Ireland, Wikipedia & YouTube/EBU/escLIVEmusic1