Army Slavic
| 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 about eighty key words, mostly ofCzechorigin. It was developed to help overcomelanguage barriersinAustria-Hungaryand was in use until the end ofWorld War I.
Part of the reason for the existence of this specialized language was that, whileGermanandHungarianwere 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.
References
[edit]- ^Deák, István (1990).Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918.Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 100.ISBN978-0-19-504505-5.Retrieved31 May2023.
Sources
[edit]- Deak, Istvan (1989).Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918.Oxford University Press. p. 100.
- Scheer, Tamara (2020).Language diversity and loyalty in the Habsburg army, 1868-1918(Habilitation Thesis). University of Vienna. p. 184.doi:10.25365/thesis.65387.hdl:11353/10.1393884.
- Walter, John (1999).Central Powers' Small Arms of World War One.Crowood Press.ISBN1-86126-124-1.
See also
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