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Mayas

Variant of Maya

noun

pl. Maya or Mayas a member of an American Indian people found in Yucatán, Belize, and N Guatemala: the Maya had a highly developed civilization long before the arrival of Europeans early in the 16th cent.
the Mayan language of this people

adjective

of the Maya or their language or culture; Mayan

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