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toronto linguist who focuses on brazilian indigenous languages, explains other strategies for communicating concepts when the words aren't there. in the amazonian language yudja, spoken by fewer than a thousand people, one strategy is to borrow words from brazilian portuguese, tweaking them to make them sound
more yudja. yudja speakers often also reference the function of the object, such as axi saasaka, ("fire that flashes") for "flashlight", or the sound it makes, as in kiriri, which captures the sound of a zipper for the word "backpack". whether the language is spoken by billions or hundreds, it is worth...
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200116-what-happens-when-you-have-no-word-for-dinosaur