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{{Short description|Selection of Slavic vocabulary used in the Austro-Hungarian Army}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Army Slavic
| altname          = {{lang|de|Armee-Slawisch}}
| creator          = [[Austro-Hungarian Army]]
| era              = {{circa}} 1867{{snd}}1918
| family           = select vocabulary
| setting          = Military communication
| map              = File:Slavs in Austria Hungary.svg
| mapcaption       = The extent of [[Slavic people]] in Austria-Hungary (1910)
{{legend|#348641|Slavs}}
{{legend|#cadebc|Other ethnicities}}
| familycolor      = pidgin
}}

'''Army Slavic''' ({{langx|de|Armee-Slawisch}}) was a [[pidgin]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Deák |first1=István |title=Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918 |date=1990 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, United Kingdom |page=100 |isbn=978-0-19-504505-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n3M8DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Army+Slavic%22&pg=PA100 |access-date=31 May 2023}}</ref> consisting of Slavicised German vocabulary with Slavic morphology. It was developed to help overcome [[language barrier]]s in [[Austria-Hungary]] and was in use until the end of [[World War I]].

Part of the reason for the existence of this specialized language was that, while [[German language|German]] and [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] were official languages, half of the soldiery was recruited from areas that spoke various [[Slavic 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.

== References ==
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==Sources==
* {{cite book |last=Deak |first=Istvan |year=1989 |title=Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=100}}
* {{cite thesis |last=Scheer |first=Tamara |year=2020 |title=Language diversity and loyalty in the Habsburg army, 1868-1918 |type=Habilitation Thesis |publisher=University of Vienna |lang=en |url=https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1393884 |doi=10.25365/thesis.65387 |hdl=11353/10.1393884 |page=184 |doi-access=free |hdl-access=free}}
* {{cite book |last=Walter |first=John |year=1999 |title=Central Powers' Small Arms of World War One |publisher=Crowood Press |isbn=1-86126-124-1}}

== See also ==
* {{ill|Army German|pl|Armee Deutsch}}
* [[Controlled natural language]]

{{Slavic languages}}

[[Category:Military of Austria-Hungary]]
[[Category:Simplified languages]]
[[Category:Military pidgins]]
[[Category:Languages extinct in the 1910s]]


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