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Neo-Khuzdûl is the conventional name of various attempts of expand the Khuzdûl language invented by J.R.R. Tolkien.
History[]
Because in lore the Dwarves don't use their own language with the outsiders, Khuzdûl is very poorly attested throughout Tolkien's writings. For this reason the scholars that attempted to reconstruct Khuzdûl necessitated to create a wholly original vocabulary and grammar rules, mostly based on Semitic languages, and Hebrew in particular. In the 2000's, linguist David Salo created an expanded Dwarvish vocabulary used in Peter Jackson's films. For The Hobbit film trilogy. In particular, in The Desolation of Smaug he fashioned Thorin's insult to Thranduil, "îsh kakhfê ai-‘d-dûr-rugnul", meaning "May I urinate upon the naked-jawed [unbearded Elves]", based off of Gimli's Extended Scene insult to Haldir in The Fellowship of the Ring, "Ishkhaqwi ai durugnul", which merely meant "I spit on your grave".
The website "The Dwarrow Scholar" holds an entire fan-expanded Neo-Khuzdûl lexicon that surfaced in 2012.