Portugis

{{Short description|Extinct creole from the Moluccas, Indonesia}}

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{{Infobox language

|name = Portugis

|altname = Ternateño–Ambaõ

|nativename = Ternateño

|states = Indonesia

|extinct = mid-20th century

|familycolor = Creole

|fam1 = Portuguese Creole

|fam2 = Melayu-Portuguese Creole

|iso3=tmg

|linglist=tmg.html

|glotto=tern1248

|glottorefname=Ternateno

|lingua=51-AAC-ahg & -ahh

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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.

Portugis was a creole based chiefly on Portuguese and Malay.{{cite web| url = https://archive.today/20120729041842/http://www.colonialvoyage.com/pt/asia/lingua/heranca.html#selection-1425.1-1425.277 | title = A Herança da Língua Portuguesa no Oriente (Ásia) | publisher = | access-date = 16 February 2014 | language = pt }}

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