You may be wondering what exactly you're looking at here -- and I'll keep the answer short: you're looking at a computer-generated language called krn.

That may seem odd to pronounce; as a clarification, I'll give you the first rule of this language, which is that there is an implied short "a" or "uh" -- a schwa (ə), to be precise -- sound between every consonant if there isn't another vowel present. This may be familiar to speakers of many languages on the Eastern side of the Indo-European tree; for instance, in Hindi and many Indian languages, the short "a" sound is implied between consonants if no long vowels are written. In Arabic, and languages written with Arabic-derived scripts, like Persian, short vowels are entirely implied.

So the name of this language is pronounced "karana" -- or kərənə, if you want the IPA. It'll also be equivalent to say "karan" or kərən.

You can see the code for this project at https://github.com/gsingh-0-0-1/krnlang.

The motivation behind this project is to create a language with a grammar simple enough to be entirely parsed and understood -- both syntactically and sematically -- by a straightforward algorithm. Right now, using regex, it's possible to validate the correctness of any given word -- that is, whether or not it's a valid word in the language. The plan is to expand this to sentence structure.

By making this algorithmic, we can also drastically reduce the size of the dictionary that we'll need. Rather than storing definitions for each individual words, we can create rules that allow users to derive useful terms off-the-cuff from simple root words.

Moreover, this language combines interesting elements of different languages. For example, the verb tense system is taken directly from English (and several Indo-European languages), but the ability for the language to be computationally efficient, so to speak, is a characteristic derived from Semitic languages, notably Arabic. That is, a root word of three letters represents a concept, and from there we derive numerous related words.

Let's look at a basic example below.

Let's take the root word klm, relating to "talking" -- how can we turn this into a set of words that is useful to us? Well, for now, we're going to add a vowel to the end of this root -- run with it for now, and it'll be clear why later. So, we have the word klma. To clarify, this "a" is pronounced like the sound in the English word "cot." If we want to turn this into a verb, we can add a suffix -- let's be lazy and choose "v" for verb. Thus klmav, pronounced kələmav, would mean "to talk" -- and we can already make some basic sentences here. With the pronoun na meaning "I" or "me," we can say na klmav; I talk.

This is perhaps not the best place to give a full explanation of the grammar of this language -- I'll leave you with the resources on the website. Take a look -- and if you've got any feedback, be sure to reach out!