How Gypsies Escaped Tsunami

I recently watched a 60 Minutes report about the Moken people that survived the Tsunami. The following is an excerpt from that report. To view a complete transscript go to: http://cbsnews.cbs.com/stories/2005/03/18/60minutes/main681558.shtml

"The Moken are the sea gypsies of the Andaman Sea, and they've lived for hundreds of years on the islands off the coast of Thailand and Burma. "

"We had come here to find out whether these people had survived the tsunami. We wound up captivated by their culture. We had never seen anything like it. "

"The Moken don't know how old they are. Ivanoff says this is because, "Time is not the same concept as we have. You can't say for instance, 'When.' It doesn't exist in Moken language."
And Ivanoff says "when" is not the only word missing from the Moken language. "Want" is another. "Yes, you use it very often," says Ivanoff. "Take that out of your language and you see how often you use it. 'I want this, I want that.'"
There is also no word for "take." "You take something," says Ivanoff. "You give or you take. You don't want."

Is there any other word missing from the Moken language? "No goodbye, no hello," says Ivanoff. "That's quite difficult. Imagine after one year, you live with them, and then you go. You go. That’s it. Finish."


Other words that don't appear in the Moken lauguage:

drive-thru
cargo pants
lawn darts
bling-bling
biggie size
tooth brush
door bell
fruit roll-up
cheese
wireless
laundromat
icky
hovercraft
filibuster
double-decker
dishabille
schuss
pinhead