 Until the 19th century, the language used in Slavic-speaking areas of Moravia was referred to as “Moravian” or as “Czech”.When regular censuses started in Austria-Hungary in 1880, the choice of main-communication languages in the forms prescribed in Cisleithania did not include Czech language but included the single item "Bohemian–Moravian–Slovak" (the others being "German", "Polish", "Rusyn", "Slovene", "Serbo-Croatian", "Italian", "Romanian" and "Hungarian").Respondents who chose Bohemian–Moravian–Slovak as their main communicating language were counted in the Austrian censuses as Czechs.