Army Slavic
Army Slavic (Armee-Slawisch) was a pidgin language created by the Austro-Hungarian Army for military communication from 1867 to 1918. It used a selected vocabulary of German words with Slavic grammar to help soldiers understand each other across Austria-Hungary. There were eleven official languages in the empire, and because many soldiers spoke Slavic languages while German and Hungarian were official, mixed-language units were common. Army Slavic remained in use until the end of World War I.
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