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Mardijker is an extinct Portuguese-based creole of Jakarta. It was introduced with the Dutch settlement of Batavia; the Dutch brought in slaves from the colonies they had recently acquired from the Portuguese and the slaves’ Portuguese creole became the lingua franca of the new city. The name means freeman in Dutch as the slaves were freed soon after their settlement.

ISO 639-3 code
none
family
Portuguese-based creole languages, Indo-Portuguese creoles
spoken in
Indonesia, Jakarta

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