If you have no idea what is going on here, please go to the main page first. It will all become a lot clearer after that.

The main point of Marklang is to keep things as simple as possible. Another very important feature is logical consistency. Each word that gets added to Marklang must conform to the word formation rules and each sentence that is constructed must conform to the grammer rules.
The reason for this seemingly dictatorial behaviour becomes clear once the long-term benefits are understood.
If everything follows a rule then it is much easier to learn.
If everything in the language follows a set of rules then it will be much easier to program computers to understand this language in the real sense of language. This will simplify the AI applications to a large extent.

Keeping this in mind, the following rules were specified as the starting point of Marklang. Rule numbers follow each rule and are indicated as superscripts. G1 will be general rule 1,V1 will be Verb rule 1, N1 will be noun rule 1, and so on.

Nouns
 No gendering of nouns.^N1 This is not because I want to be politically correct, quite the opposite in fact. It is just that noun-gendering creates an additional burden of having to maintain a male and female version of each noun, thereby doubling the vocabulary with no additional benefits to the speaker. If it is absolutely necessary to indicate a gender then it is equally easy to refer to the "female waiter" as it is to refer to the "waitress".

Pronouns
These are defined in base format as well.^P1 Thus I is defined as i. Using the pronoun in "possive" format, i.e. mine will transform the base word by adding a postfix of L^P2. Using the secondhand format, i.e. me will transform the base word by adding M^P3. Obviously this means that a base pronoun may not be defined as ending on m or l^P4. Thus we would have;
i  -   I
il  -   mine
im  -   me
and similarly for you (singular - see the benefits already?)
u  -   you
ul  -   yours
um  -   your

Verbs
 All verbs are defined in the present tense^V1. This means that the word for paint is defined as coort. To change coort to past tense you simply add ge^V2 as a prefix. Future tense is arrived at by adding te^V3 as a prefix. This eliminates situations like walk becoming walked, but run becoming ran. Of course these rules mean that no verb may start with ge- or te- in the present tense format.^V4
Thus we would have the following.
coort  -   paint
gecoort  -   painted
tecoort  -   will paint

Adjectives
 All adjectives are defined in the lowest possible level of escalation.^A1 This means that the word heavy is defined as wurg. To move it up one level of escalation you add er^A2 as a postfix to create heavier. Heaviest would be arrived at by adding es^A3 as a postfix. This means that no adjective may be created in the lowest form ending on -er or -es^G2.
Thus you would get the following;
wurg  -   heavy
wurger  -   heavier
wurges  -   heaviest

Prepositions
When prepositions are used their is no need to place a definitive article between it and the noun.^R1 Thus "I put the book in the box", will in effect become "I put the book in box".