Then you set up yourself for a failure. Another Python or Ada, except much younger and with no libraries and probably no way to interact with anything already written, most likely won't gain any traction. Especially that the goal you've stated ("easier to read") is very vague.

Check out Crystal. That's it's goal, essentially. We could always use more contributors!

It may be worthwhile to clarify the goal as starting from the well-resourced languages that seem to be closest to whatever you want to achieve.

E.g., if you look at http://cython.org/, which direction from that "point in the manifold of possible languages" do you want to go?

With most programming languages, the readability of code completely depends on the programmer.

The difficulty of understanding code is an entirely different matter.