the name "popol vuh" literally means "people's book", is the phonetic similarity a coincidence or are mayan languages somehow related to indo-european?
I think it translates as Book of the Assembly or Counsel
>>1193028
Pure coincidence, or maybe onomatopoeia.
North American Indian languages could possibly have a small similarity with PIE roots due to their (speculative?) origin in India, but Central and South American had literally no contact with Eurasia.
HOL UP
>>1193028
Pretty sure it's coincidental. Even if Mayan languages share an ancestor with Indo-European, they diverged so long ago that practically no similarities would be preserved.
>>1193048
I thought this too, but I would like to hear a proper thought on the matter.
What's your source on that translation?
I came across a tidbit that ties into some of the previous translations in this thread:
"It was known as "The Book of the Mat" because of the woven mats the people would sit on to hear the work recited at the council house"
Taking into account that a more authentic pronunciation would be Popol Wuj or even Popo Wuj (K'iche Maya language has no "v" sound, Wuy = woo with an "h" sound on the end) and after looking up some of the K'iche language I think here might be some merit to this.
>>1193028
>Mbabaram word for "dog" really is dog, pronounced almost identically to the English word
Abos confirmed for Indo-Europeans
>>1193028
'People' isn't an Indo-European word, mate.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/people#Etymology
>>1193028
They're all derived from Latin and Greek.
Occam's razor.
>>1193028
speaking of popul vuh...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQHto60cDFA
>>1196301
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQHto60cDFA
