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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?’
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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.'
source: dailymail
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