languagefor

Languagefor is a domain-specific programming language and framework intended for describing language processing tasks. It focuses on scalable, readable specifications for grammar-driven transformations, translation rules, and natural-language generation pipelines. The language is designed to be locale-agnostic in its core while providing strong support for multilingual resources.

Languagefor emphasizes declarative rules, pattern matching over parse trees, and a modular type system. Programs consist of grammars, lexicons, and transformation rules that can be composed into pipelines. It provides constructs for rule priorities, fallback strategies, and testing hooks. It integrates with standard data formats such as JSON, YAML, and RDF and supports interoperation with host languages through bindings.

It is used in localization workflows, computational linguistics research, and content generation where language-aware processing is required. Typical tasks include tokenization, morphological analysis, syntax-driven translation, and surface realization.

The language was proposed in academic discussions and has since seen several open-source implementations and experimental projects. While not widely adopted in industry, languagefor has influenced discourse on declarative approaches to language engineering and inspired related domain-specific languages.