Creating a programming language

Question

While trying to sway my nephew and nieces towards coding one of them asked "do you think its possible to create a language in Zulu?"
Is it possible?

Answer 1

You don't even need to create a language. You could simply modify an existing open source compiler to use Zulu keywords and replace library function names with Zulu equivalent, giving a Zulu C++ or Java.

Answer 2

All you need is a basic C knowledge and lots of time to write out #define directives.

Answer 3

Sure. I don't see why not.

Answer 4

John Wells I need to improve my skills because this is an interesting idea and I wanna do it for them and for me as well because I think it would be a cool project to work on.
Thank you.
Java => Zava here we come

Answer 5

For creating a new Programming languages first you have to develop its compilation or execution environment in C or C++. Then after you have to design core and fundamental principles of your language i.e-- May be object oriented, may be pre compiled, may be server-side, client-side and lots of thing..