Native to Indonesia ISO 639-3 tmg Linguasphere 51-AAC-ahg & -ahh | Extinct mid-20th century Glottolog tern1248 | |
Language family Portuguese Creole
Malayo-Portuguese Creole
Portugis | ||
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.
References
Portugis language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA