Portugis language

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Portugis
Ternateño
Native to	Indonesia
Extinct	mid-20th century
Language family	Portuguese Creole Malayo-Portuguese Creole Portugis
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`tmg`
Linguasphere	`51-AAC-ahg & -ahh`

Portugis, or Ternateño, was a 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.

Portugis was a creole based chiefly on Portuguese and Malay.

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

v t e Portuguese-based creole languages

Upper Guinea Creoles	Cape Verdean Creole Guinea-Bissau Creole

Gulf of Guinea Creoles	Angolar Annobonese Forro Principense

Indo-Portuguese Creoles	Cannanore Indo-Portuguese Cochin Indo-Portuguese (extinct) Daman Indo-Portuguese Diu Indo-Portuguese Kristi Mardijker (Papiá Tugu) Sri Lankan Portuguese

Malayo-Portuguese Creoles	Bidau Portuguese (extinct) Papiá Kristang Portugis

Sino-Portuguese Creoles	Macanese

American Portuguese Creoles	Papiamento

Creoles with strong Portuguese lexical influence	Saramaccan

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