Who's a clever boy? Bilingual parrot learns to speak Urdu after growing up in Bradford

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Clever: Mittu the parrot speaks in Urdu after growing up in Bradford

Clever: Mittu the parrot speaks in Urdu after growing up in Bradford
A bilingual parrot has started speaking Urdu after learning Islamic phrases from growing up in Bradford.

Two-year-old African grey Mittu can say the traditional Muslim greeting ‘asalaam alaykum’ and speak other religious passages meaning ‘in the name of Allah’ as well as the more customary ‘who’s a pretty boy?’


Friends: Mittu 's owner Ghaffar Ahmed says his beloved bird can say 'come here' and 'hello, how are you?' in Urdu along with other religious words


His owner Ghaffar Ahmed, from Stourbridge, West Midlands, says his beloved bird can say ‘come here’, ‘hello, how are you?’ in Urdu along with other religious words.

The 36-year-old said: 'He speaks Urdu and English - I don’t know how many bilingual birds there are in the UK but there can’t be many.

'He says a few words including ‘'asalaam alaykum'’, ‘'bismillah’', which means ‘'in the name of Allah'’ and ‘'shabaash'’ - which means '‘well done'’.

'But he also barks like a dog and makes the noise of the refrigerator alarm, so he likes making all sorts of noises really.'

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