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Definition of Mayan in English: Mayannoun ˈmʌɪ(j)ənˈmeɪ(j)ənˈmaɪən mass nounA large family of languages spoken in Central America and Mexico, of which the chief members are Maya, Quiché, and Tzeltal. Example sentencesExamples - With songs in Spanish, English, Mayan, and Zapotec, it reflects the babel of voices that is our ever-expanding border region.
- The movie will definitely be performed in Mayan, an ancient pre-Colombian language.
- There was a fireplace to her left that had a few trinkets from a Mayan expedition on the mantle: a clay doll, a small clay tablet carved in Mayan, and a stone jaguar.
- At first I thought it might be Mayan or another Latin-American indigenous language since these language groups are increasing in the area.
- When Monteczuma's envoys came to Tabasco to find out information about Cortes, they spoke only Nahuatl while Cortes's Spanish translator spoke only Mayan.
- Apart from Mayan and Epi-Olmec, the language groups of most of the Americas are not dealt with.
adjective ˈmʌɪ(j)ənˈmeɪ(j)ənˈmaɪən 1Denoting or relating to the Mayan family of languages. Example sentencesExamples - The meaning, the authors report, as with all Mayan writing, is difficult to decipher.
- They looked more like Aztec or Mayan symbols, but in a Romanized kind of style.
- Wall paintings and mummified owl remains of have been discovered in ancient Egyptian tombs, and the owl motif was used in Egyptian as well as Mayan hieroglyphics.
- Approximately one-third of the indigenous population speaks only a Mayan language.
- Language issues can be intimately linked with assimilation, as children sometimes reject both their Mayan language and customs.
- At the time it wasn't clear which of the many Mayan languages this might refer to, but now the situation has been clarified - sort of - by Gibson himself.
- We are Mayan people; we speak twenty-two different Mayan languages.
- But this word still lives on, in many of the Mayan languages, not least for the games that children play with grass balls.
2Relating to or denoting the Maya people. Example sentencesExamples - At the site today, all spheres of Mayan and Tolteca society are on display: administrative, religious and recreational.
- Further, the program had gained acceptance from dozens of Mayan communities.
- Gonzalez said the skeleton did not appear to be Mayan, but with no tools yet found, almost nothing is known of those first inhabitants.
- Most of the indigenous groups are Mayan, although small numbers of Pipil Aztecs live in the southern and eastern areas and Xincas in the east.
- His work was further influenced by extensive travel and by Mayan, Chinese, Japanese, and Islamic traditions as well as his own Scandinavian roots.
- Maya Gold is produced using cocoa grown by Mayan farmers in Toledo, an impoverished jungle region of southern Belize.
- Other ancient and sophisticated calendars are the Athenian, the Egyptian, the Incan, the Aztec and the Mayan.
- The country's religions are Roman Catholic, Protestant, and traditional Mayan.
- Fiestas are the major form of public worship and sometimes conform to the 260-day Mayan religious calendar.
- Frida Kahlo dramatized this feeling of being divided between cultures: the European and the Mexican Mayan.
- Virtually all of those killed were Mayan, who represent 82 percent of the local population.
- The Spanish seized Mayan lands and enslaved their populations, sending many to labor in the mines of northern Mexico.
- Africa had its mini-empire in Ghana; Central America had its Mayan civilization.
- I remembered the Mayan naming system was based on a series of numeral days, as well as a repeating cycle of constellations.
- The owl motif was used in Egyptian as well as Mayan hieroglyphics.
- Now this relic may have been the Mayan ruin it was purported to be.
- It has beautiful countryside, with lakes and mountains, and a fascinating culture, both Mayan and colonial.
- Breaking up their beach vacation for a day, they visited some Mayan ruins nearby.
- Profits from any commercialization of products from the project were to be split four ways, with a quarter going to participating Mayan communities.
- The great Mayan cities were all built around cenote and the Maya regarded them as sacred.
Rhymes Brian, cyan, Gaian, Geminian, Hawaiian, ion, iron, Ixion, lion, Lyon, Narayan, O'Brien, Orion, Paraguayan, prion, Ryan, scion, Uruguayan, Zion Definition of Mayan in US English: Mayannounˈmīənˈmaɪən A large family of languages spoken in Central America and Mexico, of which the chief members are Maya, Quiché, and Tzeltal. Example sentencesExamples - With songs in Spanish, English, Mayan, and Zapotec, it reflects the babel of voices that is our ever-expanding border region.
- Apart from Mayan and Epi-Olmec, the language groups of most of the Americas are not dealt with.
- The movie will definitely be performed in Mayan, an ancient pre-Colombian language.
- At first I thought it might be Mayan or another Latin-American indigenous language since these language groups are increasing in the area.
- When Monteczuma's envoys came to Tabasco to find out information about Cortes, they spoke only Nahuatl while Cortes's Spanish translator spoke only Mayan.
- There was a fireplace to her left that had a few trinkets from a Mayan expedition on the mantle: a clay doll, a small clay tablet carved in Mayan, and a stone jaguar.
adjectiveˈmīənˈmaɪən 1Relating to the Mayan family of languages. Example sentencesExamples - Wall paintings and mummified owl remains of have been discovered in ancient Egyptian tombs, and the owl motif was used in Egyptian as well as Mayan hieroglyphics.
- But this word still lives on, in many of the Mayan languages, not least for the games that children play with grass balls.
- We are Mayan people; we speak twenty-two different Mayan languages.
- The meaning, the authors report, as with all Mayan writing, is difficult to decipher.
- They looked more like Aztec or Mayan symbols, but in a Romanized kind of style.
- Approximately one-third of the indigenous population speaks only a Mayan language.
- At the time it wasn't clear which of the many Mayan languages this might refer to, but now the situation has been clarified - sort of - by Gibson himself.
- Language issues can be intimately linked with assimilation, as children sometimes reject both their Mayan language and customs.
2Relating to the Maya people. Example sentencesExamples - Gonzalez said the skeleton did not appear to be Mayan, but with no tools yet found, almost nothing is known of those first inhabitants.
- The country's religions are Roman Catholic, Protestant, and traditional Mayan.
- It has beautiful countryside, with lakes and mountains, and a fascinating culture, both Mayan and colonial.
- Further, the program had gained acceptance from dozens of Mayan communities.
- Other ancient and sophisticated calendars are the Athenian, the Egyptian, the Incan, the Aztec and the Mayan.
- Most of the indigenous groups are Mayan, although small numbers of Pipil Aztecs live in the southern and eastern areas and Xincas in the east.
- At the site today, all spheres of Mayan and Tolteca society are on display: administrative, religious and recreational.
- Africa had its mini-empire in Ghana; Central America had its Mayan civilization.
- Maya Gold is produced using cocoa grown by Mayan farmers in Toledo, an impoverished jungle region of southern Belize.
- Frida Kahlo dramatized this feeling of being divided between cultures: the European and the Mexican Mayan.
- Fiestas are the major form of public worship and sometimes conform to the 260-day Mayan religious calendar.
- Now this relic may have been the Mayan ruin it was purported to be.
- The owl motif was used in Egyptian as well as Mayan hieroglyphics.
- The Spanish seized Mayan lands and enslaved their populations, sending many to labor in the mines of northern Mexico.
- I remembered the Mayan naming system was based on a series of numeral days, as well as a repeating cycle of constellations.
- His work was further influenced by extensive travel and by Mayan, Chinese, Japanese, and Islamic traditions as well as his own Scandinavian roots.
- The great Mayan cities were all built around cenote and the Maya regarded them as sacred.
- Profits from any commercialization of products from the project were to be split four ways, with a quarter going to participating Mayan communities.
- Virtually all of those killed were Mayan, who represent 82 percent of the local population.
- Breaking up their beach vacation for a day, they visited some Mayan ruins nearby.
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