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What (who) is Mayan - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE

Mayan (disambiguation); The mayan; Mayan, Iran

Mayan

DUTCH SYMPHONIC DEATH METAL BAND

MaYaN; MaYaN (band); Dhyana (MaYaN album)

·add. ·adj Of or pertaining to the Mayas.

II. Mayan ·add. ·adj Designating, or pertaining to, an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Mayan peoples are dark, short, and brachycephallic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops, were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics, used cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and places, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 ·a.d.

Mayan

DUTCH SYMPHONIC DEATH METAL BAND

MaYaN; MaYaN (band); Dhyana (MaYaN album)

['m??(j)?n, 'me?(j)?n]

¦ noun a large family of American Indian languages spoken in Mexico and central America.

¦ adjective

1. relating to Mayan.

2. relating to the Maya people.

Mayan languages

LANGUAGE FAMILY SPOKEN IN MESOAMERICA

Mayan language; Maya languages; Mayance langages; Mayan (language); Mayan Languages; Maya language; ISO 639:myn; Parra letters; Parra letter; Western Mayan languages; Eastern Mayan languages; Eastern Mayan; Western Mayan; Ꜩ; Colonial Mayan alphabet; Mayan languages language; History of the Mayan languages

The Mayan languagesIn linguistics, it is conventional to use Mayan when referring to the languages, or an aspect of a language. In other academic fields, Maya is the preferred usage, serving as both a singular and plural noun, and as the adjectival form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages

Wikipedia

Mayan

Mayan most commonly refers to:

Maya peoples, various indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and northern Central America
Maya civilization, pre-Columbian culture of Mesoamerica and northern Central America
Mayan languages, language family spoken in Mesoamerica and northern Central America
Yucatec Maya language, language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize

Mayan may also refer to:

Mayan, Semnan, Iran
Mayan stage, geological period that occurred during the end of the Middle Cambrian
Mayan (band), a Dutch symphonic death-metal band
Mayan (software)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan

Examples of use of Mayan

1. Menchu is the first Mayan woman to run for president in Guatemala, where 42 percent of the population is Mayan.

2. Bush touring Mayan ruins and speaking out against social injustice suffered by Guatemala‘s indigenous citizens of Mayan ancestry, who have protested his visit.

3. Mayan priests had decided to purify the sacred archaeological site to eliminate bad spirits‘‘ after Bush‘s visit, according to Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan non–governmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders.

4. Thousands of tourists fled the beaches of the Mayan Riviera.

5. Glitzy resorts on the Mayan Riviera were spared, but vulnerable Mayan villages were exposed to the full fury of one of history‘s most intense storms.