|language=ru }}</ref> tidak diketahui berapa banyak yang masih mampu menuturkan bahasa tersebut secara keseluruhan.<ref name="pcd" /> Dalam [[bahasa Indonesia]], bahasa ini disebut sebagai ''bahasa Ternate''; namun, istilah ''bahasa Ternate asli'' terkadang digunakan untuk membedakan bahasa tersebut dengan bahasa Melayu Maluku Utara.<ref name="lb">{{Cite journal |last=Litamahuputty |first=Betty |date=2012 |title=A description of Ternate Malay |url=http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/download/66/60 |journal=Wacana |language=en |volume=14 |issue=2 |page=335}}</ref>
Pengaruh dari Bahasabahasa Ternate hadirterdapat dalam banyak bahasa-bahasa di Indonesia bagian timur, sertaterutama bahasa yang adadigunakan di [[Sulawesi]] bagian [[Sulawesi Tengah|Tengahtengah]] dan [[Sulawesi Utara|utara]].<ref>{{Cite book | first = F.S. | last = Watuseke | chapter = The Ternate Language | translator-first = Clemens L. | translator-last = Voorhoeve | editor-first = Tom | editor-last = Dutton | title = Papers in Papuan Linguistics No. 1 | series = Pacific Linguistics A-73 | year = 1991 | pages = 223–244 | url = https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/145736/1/PL-A73.pdf | location = Canberra | publisher = Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University | isbn = 0-85883-393-X | doi = 10.15144/PL-A73.223 | oclc = 24406501 | language = en }}</ref> Bahasa tersebut juga berpengaruh besar pada banyak [[bahasa Melayu Indonesia Timur]] dari segi [[Leksikologi|kosakata]] dan [[Tatatata bahasa]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Paul Michael |title=F.S.A. de Clercq's ''Ternate: The Residency and its Sultanate'' |date=1999 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Libraries |edition=Smithsonian Institution Libraries digital |page=7 |language=en |chapter=Introduction |chapter-url=http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/anthropology/ternate/introduction.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last1=Allen |first1=Robert B. |title=Orientation in the Spice Islands |date=2002 |url=http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf4/allen2002orientation.pdf |work=Papers from the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society |page=21 |publisher=Arizona State University, Program for Southeast Asian Studies |last2=Hayami-Allen |first2=Rika |mode=cs1}}</ref>
