Vro Brunzgyhof

Vro Brunzgyhof Is the principal language of Ahm Brunof on Earth-946.

Design

Vro Brunzgyhof originated in a roleplaying and conlanging challenge to myself. I had decided to play a barbarian swordswoman from another dimension on Champions MUSH. She would arrive, exiled from her homeworld by a sorcerer, not knowing a word of English or any other known language, but only her native tongue.

Inspiration for the language struck while I was playing about with sounds and letters searching for a name for the character. I was aiming for a typical fantasy barbarian name, and ended up juggling k, z and r (I was not consciously mimicking Ka-Zar, a character only knew vaguely; I suspect rather that name was hit upon by essentially the same method). I noted that Kiizar would be taken as a man's name by English speaker, but Kiizra was clearly female‒and so I had both my character's name and the first feature of the language: there would be two genders, a masculine and a feminine, where all masculine nouns ended in a consonant and all feminine nouns in a vowel. To make this fun, there would be suffixes, so that repair strategies would be needed to keep this the case, and there would be masculine and feminine pairs for more reasons for the obvious biological ones.

I didn't have long to work on the language, because I wanted to introduce the character as soon after it was approved as possible.