Portugis language

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Portugis
Spoken in:	Indonesia
Total speakers:	—
Language family:	Creole language  Portuguese Creole   Malayo-Portuguese Creole    Portugis
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	cpp
ISO 639-3:	tmg
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Portugis is a language that was spoken by the Christians of mixed Portuguese and Malay ancestry in the islands of Ambon and Ternate in the Moluccas (Indonesia), from the 16th century to the middle of the 20th century.

Portugis was a creole based chiefly on Portuguese and Malay.

The language was gradually replaced by a creolized Malay called Ambonese Malay.

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