| Army Slavic | |
|---|---|
| Armee-Slawisch | |
| Created by | Austro-Hungarian Army |
| Setting and usage | Military communication |
| Era | c. 1867 – 1918 |
| Purpose | select vocabulary |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
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Army Slavic (German:Armee-Slawisch) was apidgin[1] consisting of Slavicised German vocabulary with Slavic morphology. It was developed to help overcomelanguage barriers inAustria-Hungary and was in use until the end ofWorld War I.
Part of the reason for the existence of this specialized language was that, whileGerman andHungarian were official languages, half of the soldiery was recruited from areas that spoke variousSlavic languages. In all, there were eleven different official languages to contend with. While efforts were made to keep soldiers grouped by language, mixed language units still occurred.
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