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 Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovak.

Serbian

Serbian is the standard variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the official and national language of Serbia, one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina and co-official in Montenegro and Kosovo. It is a recognised minority language in Croatia, North Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Serbian appeared in full, within “Ljubim te pesmama”, the Yugoslav entry for the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest. Extra Nena performed “Ljubim te pesmama”, finishing in 13th place with 44 points.

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian, also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin.

Serbo-Croatian appeared in full, within “Neke davne zvezde”, the Yugoslav entry for the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest. Ljiljana Petrović performed “Neke davne zvezde”, finishing in 8th place with 9 points.

Slovak

Slovak, is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of the larger Balto-Slavic branch. Spoken by approximately 5 million people as a native language, primarily ethnic Slovaks, it serves as the official language of Slovakia and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union.

Slovak appeared in full, within “Nekonečná pieseň”, the Slovak entry for the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. Martin Ďurinda & Tublatanka performed “Nekonečná pieseň”, finishing in 19th place with 15 points.

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Author: Richard Taylor

Source: Eurovision Ireland, Wikipedia & YouTube/escLIVEmusic1/ESC:56-73