Nuntii Latini is a news service based in Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 that broadcasts news in Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

. It has been broadcast since September 1989 by the Finnish national broadcaster YLE (Radiophonia Finnica Generalis) on YLE Radio 1 -channel.

Station output

There is a weekly updated broadcast of world events and news. Articles are alternately read by a male and female announcer, in Latin.

Technical requirements for listening

Listening to on-line recordings of broadcasts used to require RealPlayer

RealPlayer

RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:...

 audio player. Podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

ing and MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

downloads have been recently added. After a brief hiatus from December 2009 to May 2010, Nuntii Latini is again available via iTunes as of June 2010.