{"id":116207,"date":"2026-07-31T12:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=116207"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:24:21","slug":"moken-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/moken-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Moken People"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Moken People Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists recently confirmed that Moken sea nomad children living on the Andaman Sea can see underwater with twice the clarity of other children, constricting their pupils to dolphin-like precision through years of ocean training. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Moken People<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Often called <\/span><b>sea nomads <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or <\/span><b>sea gypsies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Moken are <\/span><b>seafaring people<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who have been living<\/span><b> off the coast of Thailand and Myanmar <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the <\/span><b>Andaman Sea.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Their name,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in their own language, means <\/span><b>&#8220;sea drowned.&#8221;<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Moken have lived<\/span><b> across the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/andaman-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andaman Sea<\/a> for centuries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>moving between<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the roughly <\/span><b>800 islands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that stretch <\/span><b>along the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>one of the last sea nomad people<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Traditionally, they <\/span><b>travel in wooden vessels called kaban<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">g, moving with the seasons and tides.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fishing, diving, and gathering shellfish <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">form the backbone of their subsistence lifestyle, and from <\/span><b>a very young age,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Moken c<\/span><b>hildren are immersed in the marine environment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Possessing a<\/span><b> rich knowledge<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the <\/span><b>reefs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Moken have <\/span><b>exceptional underwater skills <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">such as free diving and<\/span><b> spear hunting.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have their own <\/span><b>language, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which is <\/span><b>Austronesian<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a language used in Southeast Asia and Oceania.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Most Moken are stateless<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a result of their nomadic lifestyle. They have no citizenship in Thailand or Myanmar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They came into the <\/span><b>international spotlight <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">following the <\/span><b>2004 Indian Ocean tsunami <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">because they <\/span><b>managed to sense warning signs from nature<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the form of the water receding back into the ocean and moving away from dangerous areas. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News: <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/new-updates\/moken-sea-nomads-living-on-the-andaman-sea-can-see-underwater-like-dolphins-scientists-discover-how-this-indigenous-tribe-trained-their-eyes-to-develop-superhuman-vision\/articleshow\/132734202.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moken People are seafaring people who have been living off the coast of Thailand and Myanmar on the Andaman Sea. 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