IE and Mayan and Austronesian etc.

From: tgpedersen
Message: 51828
Date: 2008-01-23

> > Please show us the linguistic evidence of contacts with
> > Sanskrit-speakers, which, as you claim, is "beyond doubt". Such
> evidence
> > is obvious and indeed indubitable e.g. in Malay and Indonesian.
>
> The only example of "Maya-Sanskrit relations" which I could find is
> yuk- "unite" which slightly reminds of Sanskrit yuj- "idem" (and
> English 'yoke'). Needless to say that this similarity is purely
> accidental. "Matches" like this can be found with other languages as
> well.


Hm.
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/yug.html


Torsten