Thanks mucho for posting this, Dean - I completely love everything about the Maya. Speaking of which, it's amazing that this article mistakenly uses Mayan as an adjective throughout as well as Mayans as a plural noun. I remember a long time ago hearing/reading that it was just "Maya", no "n" or "s" appended on, so I decided to reconfirm my facts. This site really clears up the issue for those that have ever wondered.
Please post away anytime if you see anything interesting on this culture again, Dean. But I guess next time, by rights this topic should probably be on the off-topic board, not that anyone would complain much about what you've posted here. Good stuff!
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Re: it's Maya, not Mayan
Posted by davidstrand on July 27, 2018, 1:30 pm, in reply to "it's Maya, not Mayan"
Ma·yan ˈmīən/Submit noun 1. a large family of American Indian languages spoken in Central America and Mexico, of which the chief members are Maya and Quiché. adjective 1. relating to the Mayan family of languages. 2. relating to the Maya people.
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).