Comments on Filius Lunae: Nuntii Latini

I personally wouldn't call it horrible. Can we...

2011-05-04T14:44:02.960-07:00

I personally wouldn't call it horrible. Can we really afford to discriminate those who do use Living Latin, as little as Latin is used nowadays?

What we can do is strive for a good, accurate pronunciation, and recommend to others that they do the same. Short of that, we can pretend that pronunciations like the one Nuntii Latini uses, with its several quirks, is one

I think their accent is HORRIBLE!!! I can hear the...

2010-04-23T10:00:11.035-07:00

I think their accent is HORRIBLE!!! I can hear the finnish accent all they way when they speak latin which nearly put me off latin altogether.

Yes, you guys are right in that it is a Finnish pr...

2009-10-28T02:26:06.260-07:00

Yes, you guys are right in that it is a Finnish pronunciation there. I do mention in my post that I am aware of different regional accents of Latin, even if following the Classical standard.
The thing is that, like I say in the entry, is that Nuntii Latinii is heard by Latinists worldwide; it is, indeed, an influential medium. And so, in a way, I expected that these minor regional

Z. D. Smith is correct. Moreover, different Finnis...

2009-10-21T07:07:20.394-07:00

Z. D. Smith is correct. Moreover, different Finnish universities have different pronunciation traditions. Mine, Åbo Akademi, uses the pure classical pronunciation. I have not studied more Latin than is absolutely necessary, but I would pronounce Radiophoniae Finnicae Generalis as [radio'fo:niai finnikai gene'ra:lis].

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2009-10-21T04:01:21.801-07:00

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Not only does Finnish lack a /w/, but it also lack...

2009-10-20T07:53:33.070-07:00

Not only does Finnish lack a /w/, but it also lacks /v/—'v' being realized in Finnish as, indeed, ʋ. I suspect that what you are hearing here is merely Latin spoken with a Finnish accent.

What is of interest here is the last transcript...

2009-10-20T06:00:13.750-07:00
What is of interest here is the last transcription: qu pronounced /kʋ/, which corresponds neither to the Classical nor the Ecclesiastical model. This particular pronunciation is very close to /kv/, which sounded very unnatural to my ears at first, for I deemed that combination quite "un-Romance"- or "un-Latin"- like (in the Romance languages, Latin /kw/ gave first either /