Portugis

Portugis, or Ternateño, was a Portuguese-based creole language spoken by Christians of mixed Portuguese and Malay ancestry in the islands of Ambon and Ternate in the Moluccas (Indonesia), from the 16th to the middle of the 20th century.

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Portugis
Ternateño–Ambaõ
Ternateño
Native to	Indonesia
Extinct	mid-20th century
Language family	Portuguese Creole Melayu-Portuguese Creole Portugis
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`tmg`
Linguist List	`tmg.html`
Glottolog	`tern1248`
Linguasphere	`& -ahh 51-AAC-ahg & -ahh`

Portugis was a creole based chiefly on Portuguese and Malay.^[1]

The language was gradually replaced by a variant of Malay called Ambonese Malay.

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