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 Latvian, Latvian Sign Language and Lithuanian.

Latvian

Latvian also known as Lettish, is an East Baltic language belonging to the Indo-European language family. It is spoken in the Baltic region, and is the language of the Latvians. It is the official language of Latvia as well as one of the official languages of the European Union.

Latvian appeared in full, within “Dziesma par laimi”, the Latvian entry for the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest. Fomins & Kleins performed “Dziesma par laimi”, finishing in 17th place in the semi final, with 23 points.

Latvian Sign Language

Latvian Sign Language is a sign language commonly used by deaf people in Latvia. Linguists use LSL as an acronym for Latvian Sign Language.

Latvian Sign Language appeared in full, within “The War Is Not Over”, the Latvian entry for the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest. Walters & Kazha performed “The War Is Not Over”, finishing in 5th place with 153 points.

Lithuanian

Lithuanian is an East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is the language of Lithuanians and the official language of Lithuania as well as one of the official languages of the European Union.

Lithuanian appeared in full, within “Lopšinė mylimai”, the Lithuanian entry for the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. Ovidijus Vyšniauskas performed “Lopšinė mylimai”, finishing in 25th place with 0 points.

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Author: Richard Taylor

Source: Eurovision Ireland, Wikipedia & YouTube/2004ESC2005/EBU/escLIVEmusic1