Quite right my apologies, it should be meddera.Actually, it means 5 not 4.
Also, it is cognate with Welsh "pump" (which is pronounced like the English pimp), which means, surprisingly, 5.
Quite right my apologies, it should be meddera.
Although bumfit for 15 is just plain hysterical.
Don't forget the various Miao-Yao languages of Southern China.China.
There are some obscure dialects that are not Mandarin or Cantonese.
Nope. There is a Basque diaspora, with speakers in many nations, including the US. The US actually considered using American Basque speakers as code talkers. That got shot down when it was pointed out that there was a group of Spanish priests in Japan. (As Spanish Catholics, they were presumably loyal to the pro-Axis Franco government, and probably sympathetic to Japan.)
Basques are, of necessity, bilingual in Spanish or French. If not necessarily fluent which is a different thing. Like the Navajo code speakers one relies on the users being bilingual in the overall service language and their own. One reason for French central education curricula was to ensure the French army at least could speak and understand Isle de France French whatever patois they spoke amongst themselves. Minority units in one's own forces can induce undesirable 'code speaking' amongst friendly forces thus confusing each other instead of the enemy. Personally I can recall our Corby based signallers being frequently unintelligible to the rest of the battalion.The problem with using Basques is that you'd need to find someone who could understand what the hell the Basques are saying.
The UK has several - Welsh, Gaelic and Cornish (plus literally dozens of native languages in the Empire days, everything from Cantonese through all the Indian languages to Swahili, Bantu, Zulu etc in Africa). The Royal Welch Fusiliers (I think) used Welsh in Bosnia rather than messing round with crypto as they judged that it was unlikely the Serbs had many fluent Welsh speakers.