"Army Slavic" was a constructed language used by which country up through World War I?

Austria-Hungary (or Austro-Hungarian Empire) developed a language, primarily based on Czech, consisting of about 80 words in order to aid in communicating among the soldiers serving the Austro-Hungarian army. Two of the official languages were German and Hungarian (a third official language was Croatian), but nearly half of the soldiers serving in the army prior to World War I didn't speak any of those languages.

The Austrian Empire was formed in 1806 following the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, then became Austria-Hungary in 1867 following the Austro-Prussian War. Austria-Hungary was a multiethnic empire that included subjects that spoke Italian, Polish, Serbian, Romanian, Slovenian, Slovakian and Czech and other languages. Army Slavic was used until Austria-Hungary itself was dissolved following World War I.

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John W Shreve

𝐾𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑒 Greek was the common tongue of Alexander's kingdom. As more and more Greek-speaking civilizations were conquered, the various dialects became a problem, so Alexander commissioned his polyglots to form a common (𝐾𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑒) tongue. It's the same Greek that is believed to be the language of the Bible's New Testament.

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Even Slovak was not one language, but a group of dialects sufficiently non-interchangeable that "literary Slovak" had to be constructed to unify that country. This was not that unusual at the time. "Nynorsk" was developed in Norway in the 19th century because of the difference between the dialects of the eastern and western divisions of Norwegian. Standard French was established in the 19th century for the same reason, as was literary Italian. "American English" could be said to be similar, although our accents are nowhere near as divergent as those mentioned above.

Pat Salloum

There were eleven different official languages, and soldiers were usually grouped by language, but mixed language units still occurred. A common language made up of these 80 or so common words improved communication.

Denise Currie

I am mid-way through a book about this period in history, it is very interesting

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