Is it true that Finland is the only country in the world which broadcasts the news in Latin?

zbeckabee

Yes, according to the BBC. "It (Finland) is the only country in the world which broadcasts the news in Latin." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6079852.stm Dec 29 06, 4:35 PM

lanfranco

Just to clarify: "Nuntii Latini" is a weekly, 5-minute broadcast of world news on YLE Radio, sponsored by the Finnish Broadcasting Company. It began in 1989. The listenership is about 75,000, out of a total Finnish population of about 5,275,000. Still, I can't imagine that you'd find 75,000 people in the U.S. or U.K. willing to listen to the news in Classical Latin even for one minute. http://www.yleradio1.fi/nuntii/id50.shtml Dec 29 06, 8:29 PM

zbeckabee

Here's a sampling from Dec. 29-2006: "Gerald Ford mortuus" "Gerald Ford, pristinus praesidens Civitatum Americae Unitarum, diem supremum obiit nonaginta tres annos natus. Constat eum munere praesidentis Americanorum ab anno millesimo nongentesimo septuagesimo quarto usque ad annum millesimum nongentesimum septuagesimum septimum (1974-1977) functum esse. Successerat in locum praesidentis Richard Nixon, cum hic propter scandalum Watergate appellatum se magistratu abdicare coactus esset." http://www.interrete.de/latein/nuntiifin.html Dec 30 06, 3:06 AM