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This site provides a list of programming languages which are just starting out in the world. Feel free to submit your own, or ones you know about!

Fledgling Languages

AmbientTalk Object-oriented distributed programming language for programs deployed in mobile ad hoc networks.
AngelScript Flexible, C-like cross-platform scripting library meant to be embedded in applications.
Atomy A programmable programming language targeting the Rubinius VM.
Babar A little language for machines with speech acts.
Brace A dialect of C that looks like Python.
Brat A little language for people who don't like to be told what to do.
Ceylon A programming language for writing large programs in a team environment.
Circa A programming language designed for live coding.
Cobra .NET/Mono language with optional typing and contracts.
Dao A dynamic OO language with a BNF-like macro system for defining new syntax.
Deca A higher-level systems programming language.
Elixir Simple Object Orientation and charming syntax on top of Erlang.
Elm Type-safe, functional reactive language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Factor Concatenative, stack-based language with extensible syntax, macros, and garbage collection.
Fancy A dynamic, object-oriented programming language heavily inspired by Smalltalk, Ruby and Erlang.
Frege A non-strict, pure functional programming language like Haskell compiled to the JVM.
Fuzuli A new general purpose programming language based on Lisp and Algol.
Gremlin A graph-based programming language.
Julia A high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing.
Koka A function-oriented language with effect inference.
Kotlin A statically-typed JVM-targeted programming language by JetBrains intended for industrial use.
Lobster A language for making games.
Luna A small, fast minimalistic language with cooperative thread concurrency.
Mirah A language language featuring static types, local type inference and a heavily Ruby-inspired syntax.
MoonScript A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua.
Myrddin Simple, low level language with type checking and inference.
Nimrod A wide-spectrum language: partial type inference, "generics", GC, macros, indentation syntax.
OOC A programming language with objects, first-class functions, and pink unicorns.
Potion A small object- and mixin-oriented (traits) language by _why.
Qore Embeddable multi-threaded programming language.
Red Compiled programming language strongly inspired by REBOL.
Roy Statically typed, functional language that compiles to JavaScript.
Shen A portable functional programming language running on Lisp.
Terra A statically-typed, high-performance low-level counterpart to Lua.
Vortex An embeddable high level scripting language that compiles to Lua.
Whiley A programming language with extended static checking.
Yeti An ML style functional programming language that runs on the JVM.
Zimbu A static, object-oriented language by the author of vim.

Inactive Languages

Efene Programming language with C-like syntax that runs on the Erlang platform
Gelo An extensible extension programmable programming language written in Go, for Go.
Hue A functional programming language using LLVM
JSOL Interpreted language with JSON syntax
lviv Stack-based, reverse Polish notation functional programming language
OMeta OMeta is a new object-oriented language for pattern matching.
Pez A small, lightweight, public domain, portable, highly nonstandard dialect of Forth.
Rhope A language using dataflow and a built-in transaction mechanism to make writing concurrent code easy.
Tart Tart is a general-purpose, strongly-typed programming language for high-performance applications.