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Requiescat in pace - Finland dropping Latin

Postby lavengro » Fri Jun 28, 2019 4:00 pm

Links to two Guardian articles on the recent demise of Finland's weekly Latin news programme.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/28/finland-latin-news-radio-bulletin-nuntii-latini-cancelled-30-years

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/24/finland-loses-latin-news-show-nuntii-latini-after-30-years

That there was such a thing is pretty cool but its imminent demise won't have a major impact on my life - although Latin is definitely on my list of languages to learn in due course, given my pace of learning this programming would have only been useful for me if it had continued to, by my estimate, 2087.
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Re: Requiescat in pace - Finland dropping Latin

Postby Axon » Sat Jun 29, 2019 12:23 am

You can still listen to the archives, with transcript!

I speak neither Latin nor Finnish, but it certainly seems to me that there is a heavy Finnish accent going on with this Latin. Particularly in the /l/ consonant. Can anybody confirm?
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Re: Requiescat in pace - Finland dropping Latin

Postby Nogon » Sat Jun 29, 2019 8:49 am

I think so too.
I often hear Finnish, or Swedish being spoken with a finnish accent, so I'm used to the sound of it, and this Latin sounded quite similar. Very understandable though, as far as my much-more-than-half-forgotten Latin from my school days allows me to judge.
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Re: Requiescat in pace - Finland dropping Latin

Postby Ezra » Sat Jun 29, 2019 9:10 am

I think this "demise" is more about the state of government-sponsored media, especially, radio, than about Latin. New media like Youtube podcasts on the one hand, and resurrection of old ones (thousands upon thousands of scanned books in Latin) give us a lot more opportunities to study and enjoy this beautiful language.
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Re: Requiescat in pace - Finland dropping Latin

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sat Jun 29, 2019 2:39 pm

Definitely Finnish. It took me one second to notice the prosody and the vowel quality.
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Re: Requiescat in pace - Finland dropping Latin

Postby tussentaal » Sun Jun 30, 2019 10:24 am

What's next, dropping Swedish? Just like they brag about dropping Nynorsk in Norway.
Soon we can expect Irish being dropped in Ireland and Welsh in Wales...
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