The Malayic languages (Malay: bahasa-bahasa Melayu, Indonesian: rumpun bahasa Melayik) are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian
pressure from the local variety of Malay, known as SulaMalay. Sula has borrowed many lexical items from Ambonese Malay, as well as Ternate, a more dominant
North Moluccan Malay (also known as Ternate Malay) is a Malay-based creole language spoken on Ternate, Tidore, Morotai, Halmahera, and Sula Islands in North