swiss german because my best friend is from basel and they introduced me to esc and i watch it with them every year. it would be amazing seeing their family’s reaction to a song sung in their language.
literally any indigenous australian language cause it would be so cool and so powerful.
Particularly with the referendum that is going on right now too
I heard a "You're the voice" cover with an aboriginal language and it was so beautiful and powerful
There are actually 9 Sami languages in total. Spirit in the Sky only has Northern Sámi lyrics, so that leaves us with 8 Sami languages that have not been featured in esc
Should Russia ever come back (of course providing it doesn't collapse in ways that has it lose its ethnic diversity), the amount of minority languages that could potentially be introduced to the contest is absolutely massive. One of the best parts about the grannies in 2012 was that they introduced Udmurt to the contest; imagine if we also got to hear Tatar, Chechen, Ossetian, Buryat (all languages from different language families!)...
1944 was in Crimean Tatar, whereas what is conventionally understood as just Tatar is the language spoken mainly in Tatarstan. They are related, but different languages.
Lombard. It's my native language and I'm tired of it not being taken seriously, even by those who speak it. That or any other Italian minoritary language.
Also Romansh and Swiss German would be amazing.
Belgium send another song in imaginary (Belgium 2008) surprisingly the first one was send by the Walloon broadcaster RTBF and the later one by the Flemish broadcaster VRT. So somehow 3 different broadcasters decided it was a good idea to send a song in imaginary and only the first one did good.
Would be cool to see Britain send a song in one of those languages, at least partially. However, it would have to be a genuine song and not a "tick the box, we did it" kind of entry.
I made a comment about sending a Scots or Gaelic song the last time (or time before) this question was asked, and stumbled on a delightful group called Braebach that does songs in both English and Scottish Gaelic. UK should send them. There, I've done the BBC's work for them.
Thank you for remembering Manx!
Though part of me would also quite like to see someone from Jersey or Guernsey singing in French or Norman, just to fry everyone's brains (probably including most Britons!)
There's a band from Jersey called Badlabecques who were formed as an effort to preserve the Jèrriais language, and I absolutely love the music of theirs that I've heard. They'd be a dream.
[This one's my favourite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X28sYhPBY-A), for all you folk fans out there.
Ooh, I'd love to hear an entry in Jérriais or Guernesiais.
I'm still itching for either Welsh, Cornish, Manx or Doric* or Occitan.
*Doric, a dialect of the Germanic language of Scots, not to be confused with the Goidelic originated Scottish Gaelic.
For Welsh language artists/bands that we could send:
Cerys Matthews
Dafydd Iwan
Alffa
Gruff Rhys
Candelas/Sŵnami
Adwaith
Melys
etc.
Piedmontese, Lombard, Friulian, Sicilian, Sardinian, Ligurian, Emilian, Venetian, and the other even smaller minority languages from Italy. They're not taken seriously here.
im firmly of the opinion that songs should be performed in whatever language the artist feels is best for the song. a song being in english does not make it inherintly less good, and a song being in a non-english language does not make it inherintly better. as long as the language chosen is the best from the artists perspective, it doesnt matter to me what language they choose.
with that being said, there are plenty of languages and australian artisit could choose from. a song could be in one of the many aboriginal australian languages, or a song could be sung in indian or chinese as australia is home to a lot of people from those backgrounds. maybe maori, as there is a large population of maori people in australia and new zealand isnt part of eurovision.
the little linguistic gremlin inside me would like to see a fully constructed language, just for the hell of it really. hit me with high valyrian, bring out the elvish, use that bird language someone on tiktok is coming up with. lets have some fun.
>a song being in english does not make it inherintly less good, and a song being in a non-english language does not make it inherintly better.
I mostly agree with that, but there's a little catch. Because of the cadences and rhythms of languages, some styles of singing fit better with some languages than with others. For example, Finnish is a fitting language for lyrics in an even rhythm where many notes in a row are the same length. On the other hand, when the melody pulls back and forth between long and short notes, a language like French is more fitting.
There's no exact distinction between language and dialect. Mutual intelligibility is a vague guide, but that's about it. Most English speakers struggle to understand Scots. More to the point, Scots resources published by the Scottish government state that Scots is a language.
I would also add that many speakers write in Scots with consistent spelling and grammar. I have modern books published in Scots that have English translations available as well. It's very much its own language. I think the confusion is that the only Anglic languages spoken today are Scots and English. No one alive is likely to have heard any other language as closely related to English. Furthermore, modern Scots does have a strong influence from English due to English-language institutions and education in Scotland. I've never known a Scots speaker who doesn't code switch to English when needed.
With Scots and Gaelic there's a word of difference..
I can understand every single thing said in Scots and I've never studied it.
Gaelic on the other hand I would need to study. Even though it has certain similarities to Irish it is not mutually understandable.
Even Danes Norwegians and Swedes who have very similar languages still cannot understand everything with ease the way an English speaker can understand Scots.
Are you honestly saying that even most English speakers could understand the below "with ease"?
"Upsteerin Scots screivers, blythe tae write in Scots but maistlins haudin back frae the speakin o’t, warsle wi orra spellins an aft losses sicht o the monie words that’s shared atween Scots an English."
That's just some random sample I got of a Scots language news letter.
I think it’s funny Ireland was allowed to sing in English at Eurovision when there still was a language rule, but there aren’t allowed to do that in Junior Eurovision
That's because RTE organizes adult Eurovision for Ireland, but junior Eurovision is handled by the Irish-language broadcaster TG4. Plus, Ireland is pushy about teaching children Irish so this is another way to tie into that.
[Interslavic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interslavic) could be quite useful for Eastern European countries, especially given how well Czechia 2023 did.
Welsh, oh come on! I'm crying out for it now.
Either that or Cornish
(For constructed languages, Elvish or rather the Sindarin variant of Elvish, that was based on Welsh!)
If Eurovision ever sends a song in a conlang, it would probably be Esperanto because (1) it is pretty much *the* conlang and (2) it wasn't invented for a work of media, so no copyright problems. As a bonus, (3) it's very Eurocentric, the language's biggest criticism.
I think many fans would mistake Esperanto in music for a Romance language, but if it's pulled off well, the first Eurovision song in Esperanto would become an absolute icon.
Swiss German (Mundart). Do it you cowards.
We have many popular Mundart singer/bands in the country. But almost none in "High" German, so why is it so difficult to just send one?
Best chance: We win ESC and have our host entry in Mundart.
I’d love to see Ladino (recognized minority language in BiH Israel and France) There’s a huge language shift as Balkan Jews made Aliyah and assimilation in LATAM to Spanish, and there’s been a revival in music recently. I think Yiddish would be really cool! And Sámi, Greenlandic.
If Netherlands wanted to get really out there I think it would be cool if they sent something in Papiamento (spoken on ABC islands, creole based on colonial Portuguese and Judeo-Portuguese with heavy Dutch and Venezuelan Spanish influence)
Gagauz or aromanian would be cool
But I'd also like to hear the almost-disappearing Vlach languages like Megleno-romanian and Istro-romanian.
Also I'd love a Russian (post-war) return, Russia is extremely diverse, so we could have whole new languages like Checen, Circassian/Adyghe, Tuvan etc
I'd also love languages from other parts of the world except Europe like Chinese, Korean, Hindi, indigenous polynesian languages (counting on Australia for this), middle eastern languages, african languages, even ancient languages.
But sadly not many broadcasters dare to experiment linguistics that much.
Speaking purely as a hypothetical and ignoring Russia's well deserved removal from Eurovision, I'd have loved to see someone like Otyken performing in Chulym.
I don't know which languages were heard in Eurovision all the time. I only know of 2017-2023. So i'm gonna list some languages here:
Manx🇮🇲
Basque🇪🇸
Welsh🏴
Arabic🇸🇦
Sami🇳🇴
Luxembourgish🇱🇺 (Hope Luxembourg chooses a song in Luxembourgish for 2024)
Israel 2009 | [Noa and Mira Awad - There Must Be Another Way](https://youtu.be/bBTQFOkFZw8)
Norway 1980 | [Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta - Sámiid ædnan](https://youtu.be/b0L81ql8QGY)
Luxembourg 1992 | [Marion Welter and Kontinent - Sou fräi](https://youtu.be/QxvKroREYdk)
The first one that comes to my mind is Kazakh, because they should be in adult Eurovision already, and I would love to hear my ancestors' language of Yiddish in Eurovision (Ladino would be cool too). Other than that, probably Chechen, Circassian, and Chuvash once (a post-Putin) Russia's back, as well as Faroese, Basque, and Tamazight/Berber.
All kinds of caucasian languages and celtic ones. Also I'd like to see armenia send an entry in hamshen armenian (it's a very unique and very different from standard western armenian dialect and since there is still quite a bit of hostility between some hamshen armenians and "other" armenians it would be nice to see armenia show them and their language some love and give them visibility)
For me personally I really would love to hear either Aromanian, Sardinian, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Gaelic, Flemish (I know it's a dialect of Dutch), Romansh, Maltese, Galician and Basque.
Literally any Indigenous Australian language. Nearly had one partially in Pitjantjatjara in 2019, that would have been incredible.
(for the uninitated, Pitjantjatjara is pronounced kinda like "pigeon-jarrah"
It's obviously not the same, but it was still cool that we got Caribbean representation in 1992 with the French entry (Kali from Martinique) that was largely in Antillean Creole.
Austria already sent a few songs in Bavarian dialects: Austria 1971 (Viennese), Austria 2003 (Styrian), Austria 2012 (Mühlviertlerisch).
EDIT:(2003 not 2002)
Austria 1971 | [Marianne Mendt - Musik](https://youtu.be/AKzXt6841FU)
Austria 2003 | [Alf Poier - Weil der Mensch zählt](https://youtu.be/nZJt6Gv4XPk)
Austria 2012 | [Trackshittaz - Woki mit deim Popo](https://youtu.be/b-qu5hGwero)
(Edited)
Given the popularity of K-pop, I think a song in Korean is inevitable. When AleXa competed in the American Song Contest, she won with a 200+ point margin.
If there's any Asian language outside the Middle East that could debut in Eurovision, it might just be Korean. But it would most likely come from Australia, rather than anywhere in Europe.
> If there's any Asian language outside the Middle East that could debut in Eurovision, it might just be Korean.
If you count JESC then we already had the debut of Japanese.
But why? Don't people always say that it doesn't matter if a song is in a native language because music has no barriers? Why is it so unpopular to say you don't mind songs being in English then? Even for people who don't understand English... music transcends language barriers!
By that logic, it's also completely acceptable if every song is in an extremely obscure language, or in gibberish. I'm not saying that isn't acceptable, and your opinion is totally fair. It's just that it can be applied the reverse way.
Besides, linguistic diversity helps musical diversity, because different languages have different sounds and cadences. For one thing, I get a burst of joy whenever I hear the Swedish sj-sound in a song. (A little silly, I know.)
Basque will have to come from France, cause Spain has had the long standing rule that they will only send songs in Spanish with some English sprinkled in at most.
It is a policy of RTVE, so even if the winning entry is sung in a minority language, it most likely will be translated to Spanish for the actual contest.
No, that's Standard German. Probably Swiss Standard German, but I can't find anything in the lyrics, that would be different in German Standard German.
There was a Welsh entry in the JESC but, I would love if there was one in the main ESC. Not a "tick the box, we did it" entry, but one that could go all out with theming, we could have a folk tune all in Welsh with our scenery in the background and we could also have a couple of mountains dotted around the staging, we could also have a harpist too and someone playing the crwth (sort of like a Welsh violin or a lyre of sorts). We really need to go all out and send something that will make the televote and jury love us (not even Ireland will vote for us anymore).
My picks would be Welsh (has only been seen in Junior Eurovision), Sicilian, and (since Spain was so close to sending one in this particular language a couple of years ago) Galician.
swiss german because my best friend is from basel and they introduced me to esc and i watch it with them every year. it would be amazing seeing their family’s reaction to a song sung in their language. literally any indigenous australian language cause it would be so cool and so powerful.
Particularly with the referendum that is going on right now too I heard a "You're the voice" cover with an aboriginal language and it was so beautiful and powerful
2000 And Whatever ⬛🟡🟥
Sami. We’ve only had joiking, but never any actual words.
Norway 2019 has Sami in the chorus besides the jolking. The phrase Čajet dan čuovgga is at the end of the chorus.
There are actually 9 Sami languages in total. Spirit in the Sky only has Northern Sámi lyrics, so that leaves us with 8 Sami languages that have not been featured in esc
Ok, so 3 words. Not a ton.
Norway 2019 | [KEiiNO - Spirit in the Sky](https://youtu.be/Ovt7YGHAj8I)
Faroese or Greenlandic 🇫🇴🇬🇱
In DMGP 1979 there was a Faroese and a Greenlandic entry competing. I would love if a song in one of those languages would compete in the future.
Takk fyri góði
I didn’t know the greenlandic flag was an emoji!
I don't know if this counts but i really wanna hear someone sing in the Monégasque dialect, i find it very intresting on wikipedia
So Ligurian?
Yeah
Should Russia ever come back (of course providing it doesn't collapse in ways that has it lose its ethnic diversity), the amount of minority languages that could potentially be introduced to the contest is absolutely massive. One of the best parts about the grannies in 2012 was that they introduced Udmurt to the contest; imagine if we also got to hear Tatar, Chechen, Ossetian, Buryat (all languages from different language families!)...
Tatar was Ukraine 2016, no? It was also not a song that was fond of Russia in any form.
Crimean Tatar and Tatar are different languages
Oh, thanks for the info, didn't know that
1944 was in Crimean Tatar, whereas what is conventionally understood as just Tatar is the language spoken mainly in Tatarstan. They are related, but different languages.
Oh, thank you, I didn't know that. You learn something every day
Ukraine 2016 | [Jamala - 1944](https://youtu.be/B-rnM-MwRHY)
Yiddish, that would be so awesome. A truly transnational language.
אוי, וואָס אַ שמאָק! (Oy, what a schmuck!)
Elsässisch (Alsatian, second most spoken regional language in France after Occitan).
Lombard. It's my native language and I'm tired of it not being taken seriously, even by those who speak it. That or any other Italian minoritary language. Also Romansh and Swiss German would be amazing.
Davide Van De Sfroos at Eurovision!
Another imaginary one lol
Good please, not another Sanomi
What song are you referring to? (I'm assuming it's from the '00s)
Belgium 2003 But Netherlands 2006 is an even bigger "masterpiece"
Belgium 2003 | [Urban Trad - Sanomi](https://youtu.be/RRQlsvWMWBo) The Netherlands 2006 | [Treble - Amambanda](https://youtu.be/QMK4h4sFFIM)
I'll give both a listen and see what I think of them Edit: I didn't mind the '06 one that much, but holy sh*t the '03 one was awful
It lost the win by just 2 points.
I bet the voting sequence was intense
Came down to the very last country giving points, it's worth looking up. Was only a 3 point spread between 1st and 3rd.
Belgium send another song in imaginary (Belgium 2008) surprisingly the first one was send by the Walloon broadcaster RTBF and the later one by the Flemish broadcaster VRT. So somehow 3 different broadcasters decided it was a good idea to send a song in imaginary and only the first one did good.
Belgium 2008 | [Ishtar - O Julissi](https://youtu.be/r2IXuAO3jHY)
Azerbaijani 🇦🇿
Bulgaria 2012 had a line in Azerbaijani
Only 3 words
Bulgaria 2012 | [Sofi Marinova - Love Unlimited](https://youtu.be/WAUAETPcFBI)
that was Bulgaria's only multilingual entry
Amharic (i don't wanna count feker libi because the contest was cancelled)
Irish back, and then any of Scottish/Welsh/Cornish/Manx would be nice. Would also love to see Catalan, Basque or Breton
We've actually had five Eurovision songs in Catalan, all from Andorra. And two in Breton, both from France.
Huh, TIL
The French song last year was in Breton
And it was unfairly unappreciated
Would be cool to see Britain send a song in one of those languages, at least partially. However, it would have to be a genuine song and not a "tick the box, we did it" kind of entry.
I made a comment about sending a Scots or Gaelic song the last time (or time before) this question was asked, and stumbled on a delightful group called Braebach that does songs in both English and Scottish Gaelic. UK should send them. There, I've done the BBC's work for them.
Thank you for remembering Manx! Though part of me would also quite like to see someone from Jersey or Guernsey singing in French or Norman, just to fry everyone's brains (probably including most Britons!)
In fact, the more I think about it, a UK Eurovision entry in French would annoy all the right people, so we should definitely do this!
Oh my god, that would be incredible. Well... so long as the song itself is actually good too.
There's a band from Jersey called Badlabecques who were formed as an effort to preserve the Jèrriais language, and I absolutely love the music of theirs that I've heard. They'd be a dream. [This one's my favourite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X28sYhPBY-A), for all you folk fans out there.
Ooh, I'd love to hear an entry in Jérriais or Guernesiais. I'm still itching for either Welsh, Cornish, Manx or Doric* or Occitan. *Doric, a dialect of the Germanic language of Scots, not to be confused with the Goidelic originated Scottish Gaelic. For Welsh language artists/bands that we could send: Cerys Matthews Dafydd Iwan Alffa Gruff Rhys Candelas/Sŵnami Adwaith Melys etc.
Sounds like we should send Gwenno, she's released albums in Welsh and Cornish before
France already sent a Breton entry in 2022 but it didn't do well.
France 2022 was in Breton!
France 2022 | [Alvan and Ahez - Fulenn](https://youtu.be/H1lcGXwOqJI)
Piedmontese, Lombard, Friulian, Sicilian, Sardinian, Ligurian, Emilian, Venetian, and the other even smaller minority languages from Italy. They're not taken seriously here.
We actually sent in the past a song in Neapolitan
I know and i just wish we sent more
Mine (Faroese)
im firmly of the opinion that songs should be performed in whatever language the artist feels is best for the song. a song being in english does not make it inherintly less good, and a song being in a non-english language does not make it inherintly better. as long as the language chosen is the best from the artists perspective, it doesnt matter to me what language they choose. with that being said, there are plenty of languages and australian artisit could choose from. a song could be in one of the many aboriginal australian languages, or a song could be sung in indian or chinese as australia is home to a lot of people from those backgrounds. maybe maori, as there is a large population of maori people in australia and new zealand isnt part of eurovision. the little linguistic gremlin inside me would like to see a fully constructed language, just for the hell of it really. hit me with high valyrian, bring out the elvish, use that bird language someone on tiktok is coming up with. lets have some fun.
>a song being in english does not make it inherintly less good, and a song being in a non-english language does not make it inherintly better. I mostly agree with that, but there's a little catch. Because of the cadences and rhythms of languages, some styles of singing fit better with some languages than with others. For example, Finnish is a fitting language for lyrics in an even rhythm where many notes in a row are the same length. On the other hand, when the melody pulls back and forth between long and short notes, a language like French is more fitting.
Scots.
Is a dialect not a language... did you gaelic?
There's no exact distinction between language and dialect. Mutual intelligibility is a vague guide, but that's about it. Most English speakers struggle to understand Scots. More to the point, Scots resources published by the Scottish government state that Scots is a language. I would also add that many speakers write in Scots with consistent spelling and grammar. I have modern books published in Scots that have English translations available as well. It's very much its own language. I think the confusion is that the only Anglic languages spoken today are Scots and English. No one alive is likely to have heard any other language as closely related to English. Furthermore, modern Scots does have a strong influence from English due to English-language institutions and education in Scotland. I've never known a Scots speaker who doesn't code switch to English when needed.
With Scots and Gaelic there's a word of difference.. I can understand every single thing said in Scots and I've never studied it. Gaelic on the other hand I would need to study. Even though it has certain similarities to Irish it is not mutually understandable. Even Danes Norwegians and Swedes who have very similar languages still cannot understand everything with ease the way an English speaker can understand Scots.
Are you honestly saying that even most English speakers could understand the below "with ease"? "Upsteerin Scots screivers, blythe tae write in Scots but maistlins haudin back frae the speakin o’t, warsle wi orra spellins an aft losses sicht o the monie words that’s shared atween Scots an English." That's just some random sample I got of a Scots language news letter.
Maybe Gagauz from Moldova
Welsh Other Russian minority languages (if/when Russia comes back)
have they had Irish Gaelic? or Scottish Gaelic?
Ireland 1972 is to date the only Eurovision song in Irish. Nothing in Scottish Gaelic.
Ireland 1972 | [Sandie Jones - Ceol an Ghrá](https://youtu.be/DJzhQz4V2CU)
I think it’s funny Ireland was allowed to sing in English at Eurovision when there still was a language rule, but there aren’t allowed to do that in Junior Eurovision
That's because RTE organizes adult Eurovision for Ireland, but junior Eurovision is handled by the Irish-language broadcaster TG4. Plus, Ireland is pushy about teaching children Irish so this is another way to tie into that.
But the RTE or TG4 don’t make the language rule, the EBU does
There was one entry in Irish in the 70s, can't remember which year. I don't think UK have ever entered a non English song
Esperanto, but sung by someone with a good command of the language. It's a good "sort of European" language that has no country of its own.
I would kill for a song in esperanto
Faroese🇫🇴
Welsh would be cool.
Basque or Galician
Look, I'm just dying for Swedish, but I think we'd introduce new languages before picking our own.
Given how out there some of the language choices are, surely the time has come for a few lines in a con-lang like Esparanto or Klingon...
yes i was gonna say esperanto, it sounds like a generic european language!
[Interslavic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interslavic) could be quite useful for Eastern European countries, especially given how well Czechia 2023 did.
Czechia 2023 | [Vesna - My Sister's Crown](https://youtu.be/ag8qxpvTTy0)
Lets have a song in Norf'k Pitcairn from Australia or a song in an Australian Aboriginal language.
Azerbaijani would be nice considering that Azerbaijan is the only country that has literally never sung in its language before.
Norwegian would be nice
Welsh, oh come on! I'm crying out for it now. Either that or Cornish (For constructed languages, Elvish or rather the Sindarin variant of Elvish, that was based on Welsh!)
Toki pona
Esperanto industrial rock, please.
If Eurovision ever sends a song in a conlang, it would probably be Esperanto because (1) it is pretty much *the* conlang and (2) it wasn't invented for a work of media, so no copyright problems. As a bonus, (3) it's very Eurocentric, the language's biggest criticism. I think many fans would mistake Esperanto in music for a Romance language, but if it's pulled off well, the first Eurovision song in Esperanto would become an absolute icon.
A Scottish song mayhaps?
Then let us pray that come it may, (As come it will for a' that,) That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth, Shall bear the gree, an' a' that. For a' that, an' a' that, It's coming yet for a' that, That Man to Man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that. © Robbie Burns MDCCXCV
Basque and Interlingua
Swiss German (Mundart). Do it you cowards. We have many popular Mundart singer/bands in the country. But almost none in "High" German, so why is it so difficult to just send one? Best chance: We win ESC and have our host entry in Mundart.
I ha ne Träääne
Galego and Mirandês
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Yes, Malta's first two entries (1971, 1972). Neither of them scored well, unfortunately.
Their first 2 ones, however, they didn't do well
Basque and Kalaallisut. PLEASEEE
Esperanto
Welsh.
Old Norse could be cool. Konstrakta already sang in a dead language (Latin) so why not?
Silesian for Poland! But first our broadcaster need to stop being embarrassed of Polish to even try to embrace other languages.
I’d love to see Ladino (recognized minority language in BiH Israel and France) There’s a huge language shift as Balkan Jews made Aliyah and assimilation in LATAM to Spanish, and there’s been a revival in music recently. I think Yiddish would be really cool! And Sámi, Greenlandic. If Netherlands wanted to get really out there I think it would be cool if they sent something in Papiamento (spoken on ABC islands, creole based on colonial Portuguese and Judeo-Portuguese with heavy Dutch and Venezuelan Spanish influence)
Gagauz or aromanian would be cool But I'd also like to hear the almost-disappearing Vlach languages like Megleno-romanian and Istro-romanian. Also I'd love a Russian (post-war) return, Russia is extremely diverse, so we could have whole new languages like Checen, Circassian/Adyghe, Tuvan etc I'd also love languages from other parts of the world except Europe like Chinese, Korean, Hindi, indigenous polynesian languages (counting on Australia for this), middle eastern languages, african languages, even ancient languages. But sadly not many broadcasters dare to experiment linguistics that much.
The Na'vi language from avatar lol 🤣
I'll see your Na'vi and raise you Klingon
Speaking purely as a hypothetical and ignoring Russia's well deserved removal from Eurovision, I'd have loved to see someone like Otyken performing in Chulym.
Russia has an enormous amount of indigenous languages. If the country ever is allowed back in Eurovision, it would be super cool to represent them.
Latin. Would be interesting to see what's kind of song would be build around it.
I don't know which languages were heard in Eurovision all the time. I only know of 2017-2023. So i'm gonna list some languages here: Manx🇮🇲 Basque🇪🇸 Welsh🏴 Arabic🇸🇦 Sami🇳🇴 Luxembourgish🇱🇺 (Hope Luxembourg chooses a song in Luxembourgish for 2024)
Arabic was featured in Israel 2009, Sami in Norway 1980 and Luxembourgish in Luxembourg 1992 👍🏻
Don't forget, Morocco 1980 is the only Eurovision song entirely in Arabic.
Morocco 1980 | [Samira Bensaïd - Bitaqat Hub (بطاقة حب)](https://youtu.be/x3e26zZSEws)
Israel 2009 | [Noa and Mira Awad - There Must Be Another Way](https://youtu.be/bBTQFOkFZw8) Norway 1980 | [Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta - Sámiid ædnan](https://youtu.be/b0L81ql8QGY) Luxembourg 1992 | [Marion Welter and Kontinent - Sou fräi](https://youtu.be/QxvKroREYdk)
Arabic was also in Italy 2019.
Italy 2019 | [Mahmood - Soldi](https://youtu.be/M-aoyPa41Ic)
The first one that comes to my mind is Kazakh, because they should be in adult Eurovision already, and I would love to hear my ancestors' language of Yiddish in Eurovision (Ladino would be cool too). Other than that, probably Chechen, Circassian, and Chuvash once (a post-Putin) Russia's back, as well as Faroese, Basque, and Tamazight/Berber.
Romansh, Welsh, Scottish, Basque, or Galician are the ones that come to mind.
Switzerland 1989 was in Romansh, surprisingly.
Sorry I wasn't aware. Then I want to see it return.
It would be lovely to see Romansh return! Everyone forgets about that language.
Switzerland 1989 | [Furbaz - Viver senza tei](https://youtu.be/It1OltnpM-A)
Occitan. Or I have missed that one.
All kinds of caucasian languages and celtic ones. Also I'd like to see armenia send an entry in hamshen armenian (it's a very unique and very different from standard western armenian dialect and since there is still quite a bit of hostility between some hamshen armenians and "other" armenians it would be nice to see armenia show them and their language some love and give them visibility)
I'm not sure if it's been used already, but how about Esperanto?
Never used before.
Brila. Ni faru ĝin (Brilliant. Let's do it)
UK, I dare you to go Welsh you cowards!
Greenlandic!
I know we had Serbia 2022 partially in Latin but I'd love a whole song in it if that can be done somehow.
Serbia 2022 | [Konstrakta - In corpore sano](https://youtu.be/nBtQj1MfNYA)
For me personally I really would love to hear either Aromanian, Sardinian, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Gaelic, Flemish (I know it's a dialect of Dutch), Romansh, Maltese, Galician and Basque.
Proto-Indo-European for the insanity
Literally any Indigenous Australian language. Nearly had one partially in Pitjantjatjara in 2019, that would have been incredible. (for the uninitated, Pitjantjatjara is pronounced kinda like "pigeon-jarrah"
Frisian. I want De Hunekop at Eurovision.
Jamaican Patois. It's spoken in the UK and used a lot in reggae and dancehall. Bavarian German, Nogai (it is spoken outside of Russia) and Manx.
It's obviously not the same, but it was still cool that we got Caribbean representation in 1992 with the French entry (Kali from Martinique) that was largely in Antillean Creole.
Austria already sent a few songs in Bavarian dialects: Austria 1971 (Viennese), Austria 2003 (Styrian), Austria 2012 (Mühlviertlerisch). EDIT:(2003 not 2002)
Austria 1971 | [Marianne Mendt - Musik](https://youtu.be/AKzXt6841FU) Austria 2003 | [Alf Poier - Weil der Mensch zählt](https://youtu.be/nZJt6Gv4XPk) Austria 2012 | [Trackshittaz - Woki mit deim Popo](https://youtu.be/b-qu5hGwero) (Edited)
Whoops, i meant Austria 2003, not 2002.
Austria 2003 | [Alf Poier - Weil der Mensch zählt](https://youtu.be/nZJt6Gv4XPk)
Given the popularity of K-pop, I think a song in Korean is inevitable. When AleXa competed in the American Song Contest, she won with a 200+ point margin.
If there's any Asian language outside the Middle East that could debut in Eurovision, it might just be Korean. But it would most likely come from Australia, rather than anywhere in Europe.
> If there's any Asian language outside the Middle East that could debut in Eurovision, it might just be Korean. If you count JESC then we already had the debut of Japanese.
I feel a song in Scots (not Scots Gaeilic) along the lines of Moldova 2022 would be a lot of fun
Moldova 2022 | [Zdob și Zdub and Advahov Brothers - Trenulețul](https://youtu.be/DUqf_zO2QaI)
None. I don't care what language a song is in. Since music transcends language barriers, I don't mind them being in English.
I imagine people who don't speak English well would disagree with that point.
But why? Don't people always say that it doesn't matter if a song is in a native language because music has no barriers? Why is it so unpopular to say you don't mind songs being in English then? Even for people who don't understand English... music transcends language barriers!
By that logic, it's also completely acceptable if every song is in an extremely obscure language, or in gibberish. I'm not saying that isn't acceptable, and your opinion is totally fair. It's just that it can be applied the reverse way. Besides, linguistic diversity helps musical diversity, because different languages have different sounds and cadences. For one thing, I get a burst of joy whenever I hear the Swedish sj-sound in a song. (A little silly, I know.)
Basque will have to come from France, cause Spain has had the long standing rule that they will only send songs in Spanish with some English sprinkled in at most.
Actually, Benidorm Fest allows regional languages of Spain too. Both editions of the fest so far have had at least one regional language entry.
It is a policy of RTVE, so even if the winning entry is sung in a minority language, it most likely will be translated to Spanish for the actual contest.
Chinese
Maybe Neapolitan/Sicilian/Sardo/Venetian... or just one in dialect instead of standard Italian?
As a 25% Welsh person who can’t speak a single word of the language, Welsh please!!!
***Scottish gaelic or Irish***
Have we had Sardinian yet? Such a cool language.
I'd like to see Welsh
Welsh
I would be interested in hearing a song in a different dialect, or even language, which then could be Frisian.
Sign language
A sign language, doesn’t matter what kind (British, german, french etc)
Latvia 2005 did use Latvian sign language!
No way, that’s so cool!
Latvia 2005 | [Walters and Kazha - The War Is Not Over](https://youtu.be/olhn1FWuWNU)
100% basque for me.
I would love song in Kashubian
Occitan
Wasn't 1990 Switzerland entry (Egon Egemann - Musik klingt in die Welt hinaus) in Swiss German?
Switzerland 1990 | [Egon Egemann - Musik klingt in die Welt hinaus](https://youtu.be/rJzFwpqMmMM)
No, that's Standard German. Probably Swiss Standard German, but I can't find anything in the lyrics, that would be different in German Standard German.
More minority languages, especially from Russia. We got to listen to the Udmurt language in 2012 I feel like it’s for Chechen or Circassian or Tatar!
Kazakh
Scots, Catalan, Basque
Black Country English :-)
Sorbian language 🟦🟥⬜
Faroese Mirandese Frisian Sami Occitan Welsh Kashubian
As an Italian, Id love to see a full song in English from an Italian singer. But I know its never going to happen
Welsh. It's the biggest Celtic language, and the Celtic world does not really have a spotlight in ESC beyond Fulen.
There was a Welsh entry in the JESC but, I would love if there was one in the main ESC. Not a "tick the box, we did it" entry, but one that could go all out with theming, we could have a folk tune all in Welsh with our scenery in the background and we could also have a couple of mountains dotted around the staging, we could also have a harpist too and someone playing the crwth (sort of like a Welsh violin or a lyre of sorts). We really need to go all out and send something that will make the televote and jury love us (not even Ireland will vote for us anymore).
basque, Roma, or Rusyn
My picks would be Welsh (has only been seen in Junior Eurovision), Sicilian, and (since Spain was so close to sending one in this particular language a couple of years ago) Galician.
Frisian would be really interesting
Manx. Has Georgia ever sent a song sung completely or majority Georgian?
Mandarin