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n. A Malay-based Creole language used for trade by some 250,000 speakers principally in Indonesia (central Maluku, Ambon)
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The Ambonese, also known as South Moluccans, are an Indonesian ethnic group of mixed Austronesian-Papuan origin. They are mostly Christians or Muslims. Ambonese are from Ambon Island in Maluku, an island group east of Sulawesi and north of Timor in Indonesia. The predominant language of the island is Ambonese Malay, also called Ambonese language. It developed as the trade language of central Maluku, and is spoken elsewhere in Maluku as a second language. Bilingualism in Indonesian is high around Ambon City. They are an ethnic mixture of Southeast Asians and Melanesians people of New Guinea, as they speak a Malayo-Polynesian language.
A typical Ambonese village consists of about 1,500 people who live in houses of woven sago leaves or plastered bamboo on stone foundations; they cultivate surrounding hillsides.
The Ambonese have been heavily influenced by Islam and Christianity, and indigenous customs have largely disappeared.
Usage examples of "ambonese".
Also, Holland’s tough colonial troops, the Ambonese, were billeted here, and ready to go into action at any moment.
Many Ambonese strolled about the roadway, sat in cafs, relaxed at streetcorners, in windows, or on pavements.
With all those Ambonese about, the forces of Soekarno were not likely to try anything in Chinatown.
Two swart Ambonese soldiers challenged me at the entrance, stepping smartly out from behind sandbags.
Because of its British origins, it could slide in beside the unsuspecting Ambonese guard at the gate without being challenged.
The Ambonese, those guitar-playing brigands, were in the thick of the fight.
It was easy to imagine that the Ambonese had been killed, every last man jack of them, in that first spray of machine-gun fire.
The Ambonese who had flung the grenade was lying on the cobbles, protecting his head with one arm as if dead.
When Soekarno finally won control of Indonesia, thousands of Ambonese had no option but to leave with their families.
Also, Holland's tough colonial troops, the Ambonese, were billeted here, and ready to go into action at any moment.
At that time there were a lot of Ambonese, Menadonese and a number of Javanese with us — men who were in the Dutch army.