"A menor língua do mundo" or the world's smallest language at Theatre Campo Alegre, on 4 and 5 October

In 2100 the world may have lost half of its languages: out of the 7000 languages spoken, it is estimated that nearly 50% doesn't survive till the turn of the century".

These data are troublesome as this is a probable and certain reality, and once one endangered language goes extinct, it takes with it oral traditions, centuries of knowledge on nature, mankind and biodiversity.

In Portugal, the endangered languages are Portuguese Sign language, minderico, aragonês, barranquenho and mirandês.

So as to create the performance "A menor língua do Mundo",["The world's smallest language", free translation], Alex Cassal and Paula Diogo's team travelled to different regions to try to understand the memory and the practice of these languages, by talking to various artists and peoples.

The main goal is to understand what these languages mean today, and thus "a troupe was imagined traversing different territories in a post-apocalyptical scenario and presenting a varieties' show with jokes and songs, and burlesque choreographies, epic poems, erudite information and trained animals".

See here for more information.