The adjective Mayan is sometimes used to refer to the indigenous peoples of parts of Mexico and Central America, their culture, language, and history. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. More formally, the use of "Mayan" is restricted to referring to an aspect of their languages; "Maya" is the adjectival form preferred when referring to non-linguistic aspects.

Relevant articles:

• Maya civilization - dealing with the historical pre-Columbian Maya civilization, culture, history and archaeology
• Maya peoples - collective designation for the various indigenous peoples of the region, sharing cultural and linguistic heritage
• Mayan languages - a language family of related languages traditionally spoken by the Maya peoples
• Yucatec Maya language - a specific Mayan language, often referred to simply as 'Mayan' (or Maya)
• Maya script - the writing system in use by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization

Other meanings

• Maayan - an Israeli poems and art magazine. The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican Civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the Pre-Columbian Americas The Maya peoples constitute a diverse range of the Native American peoples of southern Mexico and northern Central America. Yucatec Maya ("Maaya T'aan" in the revised Orthography of the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala) is a Mayan language spoken in The Maya script, also known as Maya hieroglyphs, was the writing system of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica, presently Maayan (in Hebrew: מעין) is an Israeli magazine for Poetry, Literature, Art, and Ideas.
• Mayan Records is also the name of a record company, which is an imprint of Sanctuary Records
• Mayan (Iran) - a town near Tehran
• Mamuni Mayan - Dravidian culture hero
• Mayan stage - a Cambrian Faunal stage that occurred during the end of the Middle Cambrian. Sanctuary Records is a Record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Tehran (or Teheran) ( Persian: تهران Tehrān) is the capital and largest City of Iran, and the administrative center of Mamuni Mayan (ta மாமுனி Māmuṉi, from Sanskrit mahā-múni "great ascetic" is a honorific title also called Brahmarishi Mayan The Mayan stage is the final Russian and Kazakhian Faunal stage of the Middle Cambrian Epoch.

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