Re: it's Maya, not Mayan
Yes, David, this is what quickly pops up on Google if you type in Mayan. And as the article I referred to states and explains about possible confusion, Mayan, as an adjective, can in fact be used in one situation, namely to refer to the big group of Maya languages. Otherwise scholars refer to them as the Maya, singular and plural, and use Maya as the accepted adjectival form. Not that Wikipedia is necessarily the best source but they also call them the Maya and talk of the confusion about the misused Mayan. Hard not to say Mayan though, isn't? It would be like calling a bunch of Canadians "the Canada". Of course, as for a murder of crows or a parliament of owls, we all know to use the correct collective noun for a group of Canucks, i.e. a hoser of Canadians (no source for this dubious fact). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_peoples
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