Portugis, or TernateƱo, was a Portuguese-based creole language spoken by Christians of mixed Portuguese and Malay people ancestry in the islands of Ambon Island and Ternate in the Moluccas (Indonesia), from the 16th to the middle of the 20th century.
Portugis was a creole language based chiefly on Portuguese and Malay language.
The language was gradually replaced by a variant of Malay called Ambonese Malay.
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