Amerindian vs Maya

Maya vs Amerindian

Amerindian and Maya both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Amerindian	Yes	No	No	No
Maya	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Maya is a hyponym of Amerindian; that is, Maya is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Amerindian:

Amerindian: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
Maya: a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy

Other hyponyms of Amerindian include Algonquian, Algonquin, Anasazi, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Mayan, Nahuatl, Olmec, Zapotec, Zapotecan, Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian, Chickasaw, Coeur d'Alene, Creek, Haida, Hoka, Hokan, Iroquois, Muskhogean, Muskogean, Penutian, Pueblo, Injun, red man, Redskin, Salish, Shoshone, Shoshoni, Tlingit, Wakashan, South American Indian, Carib, Carib Indian, Aleut, Aleutian, Arawak, Arawakan, Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit, Paleo-American, Paleo-Amerind, Paleo-Indian, sannup, squaw, Red Indian.

Amerindian (noun)	Maya (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayas
	an ethnic minority speaking Mayan languages and living in Yucatan and adjacent areas
	a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy

Difference between Amerindian and Maya

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