{"id":6925,"date":"2013-04-13T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T09:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=6925"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:51:20","slug":"nuntii-latini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/nuntii-latini\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuntii Latini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sebastiagiralt\/345973843\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/151\/345973843_7d324d4b5c_m.jpg\" alt=\"Inscripci\u00f3 dels emporitans\" width=\"240px\" class=\"size-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sebastiagiralt\/345973843\/\">Inscripci\u00f3 dels emporitans<\/a>, a photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sebastiagiralt\/\">Sebasti\u00e0 Giralt<\/a> on Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nMany years ago, somebody told me that Yle (the Finnish Broadcasting Company) were broadcasting weekly in Latin.  However, in those pre-Internet days I had no idea how to find a way to listen to it.<\/p>\n<p>These days things are much easier.<\/p>\n<p>Yle have created a <a href=\"http:\/\/yle.fi\/radio1\/tiede\/nuntii_latini\/\">webpage<\/a> containing podcasts, so that we can all easily get our weekly five minutes of Latin.<\/p>\n<p>I must say, however, that the presenters sound very Finnish.  I also find it interesting that they pronounce &#8216;c&#8217; as \/k\/ before front vowels while at the same time pronouncing &#8216;ae&#8217; as \/\u025b\/ &#8212; I would have thought that would be a somewhat unlikely combination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, somebody told me that Yle (the Finnish Broadcasting Company) were broadcasting weekly in Latin. However, in those pre-Internet days I had no idea how to find a way to listen to it. These days things are much easier. Yle have created a webpage containing podcasts, so that we can all easily get our weekly five minutes of Latin. I must say, however, that the presenters sound very Finnish. I also find it interesting that they pronounce &#8216;c&#8217; as \/k\/ before front vowels while at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,167,117,119,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-la","category-linguistics","category-media","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13756,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions\/13756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}