Amazing Fulani man speaking 9 languages.

Added: 2026-05-29

[00:00:00]Hello viewers, welcome again to another session of our program. Today I'm with this young man and he has amazing things to share with us. Good morning. Morning, sir.

[00:00:09]>> How are you?

[00:00:09]>> I'm fine. Great. So, what's your name?

[00:00:11]My name is Abdullahi Abdullahi Muhammad >> Muhammad >> Yeah. Très bien. Yeah. How many languages do you speak? Ah, like nine.

[00:00:21]Like nine?

[00:00:22]>> Nine, yeah. List the languages that you can speak now.

[00:00:25]Oh, um Fulani Okay. That is the first language.

[00:00:29]>> Okay. Uh Yoruba Okay. Hausa Okay. And uh Bambara. Do you know Bambara? Uh-uh, yes now. Do you know Bambara?

[00:00:38]>> Yes now. So, and Lingala Okay.

[00:00:40]>> PG Yes. And Which language is French?

[00:00:45]>> Yeah. And uh English English now. That's awesome. Awesome. You alone? Yeah. Nine solid languages. Like seriously, he's got gift. He's got gift. Okay, so let's start with um Yoruba.

[00:00:58]She go Yoruba. Ah.

[00:01:00]You okay so you go country. Mhm. You go only one bar. You go only one bar. It's a lie.

[00:01:06]You go only one bar. You go let you call you the Yoruba.

[00:01:09]A day Yoruba day day to more like you.

[00:01:12]Mhm. You know you go go day to more bar.

[00:01:14]Mhm. It didn't you pay. Yoruba You go more fair hour.

[00:01:20]You need Christianity at Muslim. Mhm.

[00:01:23]Every you go to my share any notes cooking cooking share any bites. Mhm.

[00:01:27]You go only one bar. You go tell you by you go yeah. You a day. You go outside to Yoruba no job. You go to job Muslim at Christian. Only not you go to job only one job Muslim at Christian. You go buy kilo of the fat to feed you dry dry bone. Only one fair hour. You marry Muslim or my fair Christian.

[00:01:43]Christian no church. Muslim no no more city. You go day no more war. So, you go go only one day to see the Yoruba go.

[00:01:53]You go only one bar in Ah, new school.

[00:01:56]I come out with the new or do you know where I am now me?

[00:02:01]>> I like So I look like I know problem. Let me just give myself Like okay.

[00:02:20]So I like So everybody now be calling me I do my sharky.

[00:02:29]They are calling me Mali B. Mali B.

[00:02:32]>> Mali B. Yeah.

[00:02:33]>> Mali B. Mali B. Yeah.

[00:02:35]You know you know you know nice.

[00:02:36]>> Yeah, Mali B.

[00:02:38]Mali B. Trivia.

[00:02:54]Oh, this is the tire. Okay. Metric tire.

[00:02:57]Dako. Pa mal. Pa mal. No.

[00:03:04]Oh, it's here in Nigeria.

[00:03:08]Hey.

[00:03:10]Oui. Ah. Oui.

[00:03:19]Oui.

[00:03:20]Oui. Oui.

[00:03:24]And Gambians. Okay, so I'm going to go there. Oui. Oui. Oui. Oui.

[00:03:29]When I am working Yeah.

[00:03:37]No. No. No. No.

[00:03:44]I like them.

[00:03:45]Go and learn the language.

[00:03:46]>> You know what happened? What happened? I don't know why they speak my language.

[00:03:52]Ah. Now English I like pass now. All those I speak it.

[00:03:58]And you know if you are outside you are not speaking your language like seriously You don't speak >> [laughter] >> like seriously It's influence of the outside the outside I'm speaking It's like just like a street Okay.

[00:05:10]You told me about Baruba.

[00:05:12]Where where is that language spoken? Uh in Kwara State and also Benue. Okay. So you speak that one.

[00:05:20]Yeah. Just greet the people. I don't understand that one. Greet the people for us.

[00:05:38]>> [laughter] >> I also like my people good morning. So I'm your brother and I'm your I'm I'm your I'm your I'm your son and so and so forth. How are you doing? How's today?

[00:05:52]And how is this situation?

[00:05:54]Managing situation.

[00:05:55]>> Like seriously.

[00:05:56]>> [laughter] >> It's a phase. We'll get get to write.

[00:06:00]You mentioned Lingala. Yeah. Lingala is spoken where?

[00:06:05]In Congo-Brazzaville.

[00:06:07]And Congo-Kinshasa. Have you been there before? No. That's the name of That's the country of that singer.

[00:06:13]Yeah, Awilo Longomba. Awilo Longomba.

[00:06:16]>> And Koffi Olomidé. Wow.

[00:06:18]Now, the challenge is you speak the language. Yeah. How did you learn it?

[00:06:22]Have you been there before? No. So, how did you learn the language? Uh like we are in the same house with [snorts] them.

[00:06:29]We were We were also renting there renting Which in which state? In Oyo State here. Yeah, in Shaki. Wow.

[00:06:36]>> Yeah, in Shaki. Okay. So, I thought you know I Okay, I didn't tell you that I brought up at Shaki, abi? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you I think you mentioned it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, we They are watching you.

[00:06:45]>> [laughter] >> So, we brought up I I brought up with them Okay. in same house. So, we are living together. So, we share we share the language to each other.

[00:06:56]So, you learned Lingala from them? Yes.

[00:06:58]When When about When anytime they are at home, they they normally speak their language Lingala. Eh. Not French? No, not French.

[00:07:05]>> Even though their original language is French. Yeah. Their daddy mandated them.

[00:07:09]Yes, yes.

[00:07:10]>> Wow.

[00:07:10]So, you learned Lingala from them. Did they also learn from you? Yes. What did they learn from you? Flying language.

[00:07:15]Wow, they mandated it.

[00:07:17]Wow, that's awesome. Did you gain anything from them? Yeah. What did you gain? Because they when they is their father that built a maybe one mansion. It's not a confirm mansion. Wow.

[00:07:29]>> At Shaki there. Yes. Now I say ah since this guy used to call me >> What did they call you? What did they call you? What name did they call you?

[00:07:35]Uh Abdullahi. Abdullahi, okay. Since Abdullahi used to call me, so I thought let's give him one because we are all the same. You are all the same? Yes.

[00:07:44]They say we are all the same. Let's give him one room.

[00:07:46]Up to now my my my my room is there.

[00:07:48]Where? It's at the >> In the mansion?

[00:07:50]>> Yes.

[00:07:50]>> You live in a mansion?

[00:07:51]>> Yeah. Mohammed?

[00:07:52]>> My room is there. In the mansion?

[00:07:54]>> In in also my father's house, my room is there. Wow.

[00:07:57]>> I see like okay, greet Lingala people.

[00:07:58]Let's confirm.

[00:07:59]WHY OYO KI LINGALA?

[00:08:11]TRèS BIEN.

[00:08:12]TRèS BIEN. D'ACCORD. VOILà. Let's move to Bambara. Okay.

[00:08:18]Bambara, I was in Mali for about 3 weeks. Okay. 1999, that's about 23 24 years ago.

[00:08:25]>> Wow.

[00:08:25]>> Yeah, I still remember very vividly like those few weeks.

[00:08:28]>> Wow. Nice. So, I wished I stayed longer.

[00:08:30]I would have been able to You said you love the language Bambara. Bambara is spoken in Mali and where? And Côte d'Ivoire. Côte d'Ivoire. And Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso. They speak it in Bobo-Dioulasso.

[00:08:41]We I know Bobo-Dioulasso.

[00:08:44]And in Mali is a general language in Mali. Okay. So, they normally speak it in Abidjan and Bouaké. But there's another name for it.

[00:08:52]Some people call it Bambara. Some people also call it Is there is there another language called Dyula? Yeah. Même chose. Yes. In in in in in the Côte d'Ivoire Yes. Côte d'Ivoire. Oui. They call it Dyula. Dyula. In Burkina, they also call it Dyula. Okay.

[00:09:09]>> In Mali They call it Because they are the language is belong to them. Okay.

[00:09:12]They now call it Burkina.

[00:09:14]>> They call it Bambara.

[00:09:15]An ni sogoma. An ni chê.

[00:09:17]A kan na Sogoma bidi.

[00:09:19]A bado. Am back. A kan na. Am back.

[00:09:21]Voilà.

[00:09:25]>> [laughter] >> Okay. D'accord.

[00:09:27]Speak greet them. Let's say in Bambara.

[00:09:29]Why Mhm. Merci. Uh can you greet uh Fulani?

[00:10:10]Wow, I love this. I love the language and I love you. But I have issues with Fulani people. Why? You know now. Why?

[00:10:17]You know now. Say all those bandies.

[00:10:20]Uh-uh.

[00:10:20]Omo, you know no tribe you know getting over. I agree. I agree. I see they like this you get your own trouble.

[00:10:26]>> I will get >> You get your own problem. No, you self.

[00:10:28]I know >> I get my own problem. I know. I know. So every tribe has their own problem.

[00:10:35]Like seriously. If you pass on the street and you say your name is Ayo.

[00:10:39]Yeah.

[00:10:42]I know you. I can know you and find the TJ. And many benefits I've gotten because you have passed off as a Yoruba man. Am I right? Uh, although right.

[00:10:51]You are right. But uh Fulani.

[00:10:55]Omo.

[00:10:57]Now tell me what benefits have you gotten? Maybe you went to the market you met what benefits have you gotten as a Fulani man?

[00:11:04]Hey omo, I did feel like Like mad.

[00:11:06]Fulani. And Fulani. Fulani.

[00:11:09]Free.

[00:11:10]I just speak the language with them.

[00:11:12]Mhm. They were like ah Omo, this Yoruba or Igbo. Say the way they say it. I just say ah Or Igbo.

[00:11:27]I'm not Inyamiri. I'm not Inyamiri. You know if they if they say Inyamiri or Igbo means all all are the same.

[00:11:33]>> Yes. Or Yoruba job. If they say Yoruba job Yes. means it's Yoruba. Okay. So, Hausanke. Okay. Why not Hausanjo? No, Hausanke. Eh, Yambrijo.

[00:11:43]>> Eh.

[00:11:44]Yoruba job. Eh. Ibojo, Hausanke. I know Hausanjo.

[00:11:48]Yoruba >> [laughter] >> job. No.

[00:11:50]Awon ke Awon jo.

[00:11:52]Awon ke >> [laughter] >> Like seriously.

[00:11:55]>> You know I say no. Like seriously. I will say Full full Full full day. Pull up and down. Wow. Awesome. You know what I mean of me pull up and down? No. I'm Fulani just like you.

[00:12:04]>> Wow. So, you are a Fulani man. Like seriously, I'm a Fulani.

[00:12:07]The boat. Wow. My foundation to my zinc and a fly. Wow. Awesome having you.

[00:12:13]>> Okay, thank you very much. You know what?

[00:12:17]I know what? Uh, like I would like to say bye-bye with my language Fulani.