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Welsh has the unfortunate combination of being unfamiliar to most English speakers, and not exotic enough to score diversity points.

On that topic I love the Welsh-English encounter of civil servants thinking they understood each other[0]

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7702913.stm

It surprisingly resembles Swedish language a bit.

Heh, I look forward to the future version of "en tant que modèle linguistique, je ne peux pas traduire ce texte" or in this specific case "fel model iaith, ni allaf gyfieithu'r testun hwnnw"

But Mumble brings back fond memories https://www.mumble.info/

So not only is it based on an obscure word in Welsh, but it's not even spelled correctly?

Yeah, pretty much, I named it after Mumbles or Mwmbwls where I live, but it's also a play on the word mumble.